How To Install fprintd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fprintd
fprintd is:
fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers libfprint functionality over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. By adding this daemon layer above libfprint, various problems related to multiple applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers get solved. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
Package: fprintd Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.90.1-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: FingerForce Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 336 Depends: dbus, policykit-1, libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libfprint-2-2 (>= 1:1.90.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.56), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99) Filename: pool/main/f/fprintd/fprintd_1.90.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 40252 MD5sum: fb72fc4b5dd55e7df6a5c597e96f4af2 SHA1: d109136bc697d3fec0d4bb6969bdd4116d02e9c9 SHA256: 41558e1817cbc5da6be3a423e5e42afe06b9229ba3414b69e3dff8ad4edcf65c Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/fprintd Description-en: D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers libfprint functionality over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. By adding this daemon layer above libfprint, various problems related to multiple applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers get solved. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install fprintd
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fprintd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fprintd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fprintd
Install fprintd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fprintd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fprintd
Install fprintd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fprintd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fprintd
How To Uninstall fprintd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fprintd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fprintd
Uninstall fprintd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fprintd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fprintd
Remove fprintd Configurations and Data
To remove fprintd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fprintd
Remove fprintd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fprintd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fprintd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.