How To Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is biometric-driver-community-multidevice

biometric-driver-community-multidevice is:

Community multi-device drivers for biometric authentication. Community multi-device drivers use libfprint for biometric identification.

This package supports following devices: upekts, uru4000, aes4000, aes2501, upektc, aes1610, fdu2000, vcom5s, upeksonly, vfs101, vfs301, aes2550, aes1660, aes2660, aes3500, upektc_img, etes603, vfs5011, vfs0050, elan.

There are three methods to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice 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-driver-community-multidevice using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice

Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install biometric-driver-community-multidevice using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice

Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice 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 biometric-driver-community-multidevice using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice

How To Uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the biometric-driver-community-multidevice package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice

Uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice And Its Dependencies

To uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biometric-driver-community-multidevice

Remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice Configurations and Data

To remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge biometric-driver-community-multidevice

Remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biometric-driver-community-multidevice

References

• biometric-driver-community-multidevice website
• biometric-driver-community-multidevice on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.