How To Install fprintd on Fedora 34
fprintd is D-Bus service for Fingerprint reader access
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd on Fedora 34.
What is fprintd
D-Bus service to access fingerprint readers.
We can use yum or dnf to install fprintd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fprintd.
Install fprintd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fprintd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fprintd
Install fprintd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fprintd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fprintd
How To Uninstall fprintd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fprintd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fprintd
fprintd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/fprintd.conf
/usr/bin/fprintd-delete
/usr/bin/fprintd-enroll
/usr/bin/fprintd-list
/usr/bin/fprintd-verify
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/cbdc1e93671b7885a18ff80d386377a92b41e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/39c6666f6d90a179bb0dfc5cec620d5c7c2566
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/8b9896ec5baf3c455677ed0786f5bdbb4417d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/56234d333a18841b44971522d0fbd45574d732
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/e5d0e7965ff744356fcb8c5be384afd8ac683e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service
/usr/libexec/fprintd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/net.reactivated.Fprint.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/net.reactivated.Fprint.conf
/usr/share/doc/fprintd
/usr/share/doc/fprintd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fprintd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fprintd/README
/usr/share/doc/fprintd/TODO
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/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/cy/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/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/et/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/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/fur/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/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/ia/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/ka/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/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/ml/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/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/sq/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/ta/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/fprintd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/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_HK/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.