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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0008557Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2023-12-27 03:26
ReporterDAV Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0008557: Missing fprintd package
Description

Greetings,
I have Kali release 2023.4 installed on a laptop (Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen. 11) with fingerprint reader recognized by lsusb.
That said, Kali is unable to locate package fprintd using "sudo apt install fprintd".
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot by now.
Eric

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kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2023-12-10 17:12

reporter   ~0018702

Looks like the packages has been removed:

https://pkg.kali.org/news/550644/fprintd-1942-2-removed-from-kali-rolling/

so this should be expected.

DAV

DAV

2023-12-10 18:04

reporter   ~0018703

Greetings,
Thx for the quick answer.
Is there a way to put back this package since no specific reason is given for removal ?
Alternatively, does this mean that there is no way to use a fingerprint reader on Kali Linux like in many other distributions ?
Your help and time are much appreciated.
Have a nice and safe day.
Eric

kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2023-12-10 18:23

reporter   ~0018704

This removal seems to come from Debian:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1456785/fprintd-removed-from-testing/

As long as Debian won't ship it in testing it probably won't be shipped in Kali either.

DAV

DAV

2023-12-10 18:50

reporter   ~0018705

Thx.
Is there a way to have a fingerprint reader working on Kali Linux 2023.4 using KDE Plasma x11 please ?
This would be really great to earn time and bring more convenience to Kali.
Thx a lot.

kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2023-12-10 19:28

reporter   ~0018706

This sounds more like a support question for:

https://forums.kali.org/forumdisplay.php?6-Kali-Linux-General-Questions

DAV

DAV

2023-12-11 06:36

reporter   ~0018707

Thx. Will do.
Have a nice and safe day.

DAV

DAV

2023-12-11 06:39

reporter   ~0018708

One last point: I just tried to register for Kali Fora and I get the following message from https://forums.kali.org/register.php:
"Sorry, registration has been disabled by the administrator"
Any clue ?
Thx

steev

steev

2023-12-27 03:26

manager   ~0018755

fprintd is a package that comes from Debian - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fprintd - as such, it may occasionally be removed when they run into QA issues with their packages. It was recently re-introduced into their unstable branch, and will eventually make its way back into testing.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-12-10 09:55 DAV New Issue
2023-12-10 17:12 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0018702
2023-12-10 18:04 DAV Note Added: 0018703
2023-12-10 18:23 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0018704
2023-12-10 18:50 DAV Note Added: 0018705
2023-12-10 19:28 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0018706
2023-12-11 06:36 DAV Note Added: 0018707
2023-12-11 06:39 DAV Note Added: 0018708
2023-12-27 03:26 steev Assigned To => steev
2023-12-27 03:26 steev Status new => closed
2023-12-27 03:26 steev Resolution open => no change required
2023-12-27 03:26 steev Note Added: 0018755