How To Install biometric-auth on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-auth on Debian 10.
What is biometric-auth
biometric-auth is:
The service layer of the biometric identification authentication framework. The service layer uses the DBus bus to provide the upper application with operation interfaces such as feature enroll, feature verify, feature identify, feature search, feature delete, etc. Meanwhile, it also provides notification of device status changes event and notification of USB device hotplug event.
This package contains a library for biometric authentication.
There are three methods to install biometric-auth on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install biometric-auth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biometric-auth
Install biometric-auth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biometric-auth
Install biometric-auth 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biometric-auth
How To Uninstall biometric-auth on Debian 10
To uninstall only the biometric-auth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biometric-auth
Uninstall biometric-auth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biometric-auth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biometric-auth
Remove biometric-auth Configurations and Data
To remove biometric-auth configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biometric-auth
Remove biometric-auth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biometric-auth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biometric-auth
Dependencies
biometric-auth have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libbiometric0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libusb-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-auth package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.