How To Install fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. fprintd.x86_64 is D-Bus service for Fingerprint reader access

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `fprintd.x86_64`

D-Bus service to access fingerprint readers.

We can use yum to install fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fprintd.x86_64.

Install fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fprintd.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fprintd.x86_64

How To Uninstall fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the fprintd.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove fprintd.x86_64

fprintd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/net.reactivated.Fprint.conf
/etc/fprintd.conf
/usr/bin/fprintd-delete
/usr/bin/fprintd-enroll
/usr/bin/fprintd-list
/usr/bin/fprintd-verify
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service
/usr/libexec/fprintd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/net.reactivated.Fprint.service
/usr/share/doc/fprintd-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/fprintd-0.5.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fprintd-0.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fprintd-0.5.0/README
/usr/share/doc/fprintd-0.5.0/TODO
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa_IR/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/fprintd.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.reactivated.fprint.device.policy
/var/lib/fprint

References

fprintd.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.