How To Install libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfprint.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libfprint.i686 is Toolkit for fingerprint scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libfprint.i686`

libfprint offers support for consumer fingerprint reader devices.

We can use yum to install libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libfprint.i686.

Install libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libfprint.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libfprint.i686

How To Uninstall libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libfprint.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libfprint.i686

libfprint.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libfprint.so.0
/usr/lib/libfprint.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-fprint-autosuspend.rules
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/README
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libfprint-0.5.0/TODO

References

libfprint.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libfprint.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.