How to Install and Uninstall biometric-auth Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "biometric-auth" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install biometric-auth on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                biometric-auth
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "biometric-auth" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall biometric-auth on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                biometric-auth
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the biometric-auth package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: biometric-auth
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.70-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Source: biometric-authentication
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Kylin Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 137
Provides: bio-app-api-0.11
Depends: libbiometric0 (= 0.9.70-1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.9), systemd
Filename: pool/universe/b/biometric-authentication/biometric-auth_0.9.70-1_amd64.deb
Size: 26100
MD5sum: 3e873c48bd11bd6e5e52bcc32f44e201
SHA1: 9dccbddf04d4d8200121f51ea44ddc7fc47135e1
SHA256: b6ea15b6b612d6dda505a96191e04715e9f54c9afc80bd8c1788fe1f87b24148
SHA512: 560d2ac3ce38fca7c94216a5733726b9de0d96088318b5bf1cf6d80deed66e1c64bd1237e47d1a5d106441b47811507f57350ef13e6d0317f1e6e733b97ca129
Homepage: https://github.com/ukui/biometric-authentication.git
Description-en: Biometric Authentication Service
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.
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This package contains a library for biometric authentication.
Description-md5: 651df2ae9bb39ef0ccf5e2b139bfdf0c