Hi! This project is exactly what i have been looking for! I am trying to integrate basic fingerprint matching into a Point-of-Sale system, without having to mess aroung the details, and fprintd seems to fill that gap perfectly!
However: I can't get it to install in any 'clean' fashion on Debian Squeeze - i have already installed more than 10 packages that ./configure requested, and have been making slow progress, but now i'm stuck at: Requested 'gio-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GIO is 2.24.2 GIO seems to be a very essential package (or a part of Glib2), so i am a bit hesitant to install a non-standard (i.e. not blessed by debian) version on my machines. There used to be a fprint package for Debian Sid, but that seems to have been discontinued in Squeeze. So my question is if fprintd REALLY requires GIO 2.26, or if 2.24.2 should work, too. In case that it would work with 2.24.2, what config file do i have to modify, to get the standard ./configure install process to run? One more question: I am a bit at a loss regarding Linuxes complete and utter lack ofbiometrics support. There seem to be a gadzillion (ahem) 'well meaning' projects everywhere, but none really seem to get anywhere. Then there seems to be a standard BioAPI, but noone seems to use it. Fprint seems to be the best approach - but as i just read in the mailing list archives, it seems to be really hard top buy supported fingerprint readers for this project. So: am i right to assume that fprintd is the current cutting edge of linux fingerprint-matching? And if so, why are the big distros not supporting it like mad? Cheers, M. _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
