How to Install and Uninstall biometric-utils Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "biometric-utils" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install biometric-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall biometric-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                biometric-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the biometric-utils package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: biometric-utils
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: 71
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), python3:any, biometric-auth, systemd, python3-prettytable, python3-dbus, python3-gi
Filename: pool/universe/b/biometric-authentication/biometric-utils_0.9.70-1_amd64.deb
Size: 14460
MD5sum: 067fee78d982c591f9c317184ab2c67d
SHA1: c3312e038895f184f84ca9077d4aac1b3c92f4e1
SHA256: f6776d00d17803a4b605eca1e1ee30c68290af13a0df7fdecad32630a0a73697
SHA512: 40f60e65d44cc12e59b6b1f13dfea6e127032cf2f14d358c98a25cc2c3daf51254b604d28a835087ddd090db44ac0a874f1826bee5396aa1be7a7e6611f624c8
Homepage: https://github.com/ukui/biometric-authentication.git
Description-en: Biometric authentication utils
Biometric authentication tools.
This package provides the biometric-config-tool and biometric-device-discover
tools:
- biometric-auth-client: The command line client of the biometric
identification framework service;
- biometric-config-tool: add, remove, configure the biometric drivers;
- biometric-device-discover: discover the devices supported by the biometric
framework;
Description-md5: aef272ad3a02512459432fcea8af1291