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Cake day: October 27th, 2023

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  • There is a script you should run from your home folder and it will install the fingerprint reader. works like a charm.

    #!/bin/bashsudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade -y## Path correction for python (solved a compilation issue)export PATH="/home/$USER/.local/bin:$PATH"## Fingerprint readersudo apt purge --auto-remove fprintd libfprint-2-2 -ysudo apt install gtk-doc-tools libfprint-2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libgusb-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libpam-wrapper libpam0g-dev libpamtest0-dev libpolkit-gobject-1-dev libxml2-utils python3-pip python3-pypamtest git gettext valgrind -ysudo apt install build-essential cmake gettext libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libdebconfclient0 libglib2.0-dev libnss3-dev libpixman-1-dev libsystemd-dev meson python3-dbusmock libpam-fprintd udev libcairo2-dev -ysudo pip install mesonpip install ninja gobject python-dbusmockgit clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd.gitgit clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint.gitcd libfprint/git fetchlatestTag=$(git describe --tags \git rev-list --tags --max-count=1\)echo $latestTaggit checkout $latestTagsudo chown $USER.$USER -R .meson setup builddirmeson setup --wipe builddirsudo ninja -C builddir installcd …/fprintd/git fetchlatestTag=$(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)echo $latestTaggit checkout $latestTagsudo chown $USER.$USER -R .meson setup builddirmeson setup --wipe builddirsudo ninja -C builddir installcd …sudo pam-auth-updateecho "You can now go to Settings -> Users to enroll your fingerprints"echo “If the option does not appear, then there must have been an error in one of the steps above (probably the compilations, lines 31-34)”``