How To Install libfprint.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfprint.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libfprint.x86_64 is Toolkit for fingerprint scanner

Introduction

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

What is `libfprint.x86_64`

libfprint offers support for consumer fingerprint reader devices.

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

Install libfprint.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 libfprint.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libfprint.x86_64

How To Uninstall libfprint.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libfprint.x86_64

libfprint.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-fprint-autosuspend.rules
/usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfprint.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/TODO

References

libfprint.x86_64 website

Summary

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