How to Install and Uninstall fprintd Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 10,2025

You can also install and uninstall the fprintd on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "fprintd" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install fprintd on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fprintd
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fprintd" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall fprintd on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fprintd
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fprintd package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fprintd
Version: 1.94.2-2
Installed-Size: 1028
Maintainer: FingerForce Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: dbus, policykit-1, libc6 (>= 2.4), libfprint-2-2 (>= 1:1.94.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.56), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99)
Description: D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access
Description-md5: d85e9a892deac7c7145320b8e32f9192
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/fprintd
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fprintd/fprintd_1.94.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 121252
MD5sum: 4299ccfb91129dbee4178078fc4f4963
SHA256: d8245be8ac2fc30feceb2a8ab98e1ab99566bb81f468391da0d6a15c5e477048