How to Install fprintd in Ubuntu 18.04



Install fprintd by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install fprintd

Description:

D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access

fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers libfprint functionality over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. By adding this daemon layer above libfprint, various problems related to multiple applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers get solved.

Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/fprintd

Version: 0.8.0-2

Section: universe/misc