Comment 62 for bug 827669

On 09/07/2014 12:38 PM, Ruben Rocha wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> On 12.04 it is a bit tricky for the driver to install ok because the one
> on the fprint repo replaces the one of the deb package.
>
> Try this:
>
> sudo apt-get remove libfprint0
> install the deb again
> sudo apt-get install fprintd libpam-fprintd
>
> I think that you need to install the deb package first and then install
> the other files from the fprint repo. Reboot and try to install the deb
> package again.
>

Hi Ruben,

Thanks for your efforts.

When I follow your instructions, on 12.04.5, I get the following when
trying to start fprint_demo:

fprint_demo: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not
found (required by /usr/local/lib/libfprint.so.0)

So it seems that the libfprint from the fprint repo has not been
compiled for 12.04 which carries glibc 2.15. So I'm afraid that this
still isn't working on the current LTS.

Cheers, Jan