Fingerprint Reader Problem

[Ponce-De-Leon]

@geevk

For fingerprint reader, I found the lenovo instructions and tried them, but this did not change anything.
As I was searching I found AUR (en) - libfprint-elanmoc2-newdrvs-git
This is a patched elanmoc driver exactly for my Elan ARM-M4 sensor (I found more specifics in my hardware list) but for Arch.

Problem is that I do not know how to properly install this and make sure libfprint and libfprintd are also present as instructed on the pagcd libfprinte. I see libfprint-2.so.2 and libfprint-2.so.2.0.0 as directories in the libraries.

@swarfendor437

You need to download the .tar.gz file from here:

Releases · agent0706/libfprint-elanmoc2 · GitHub

I would extract he tar.gz drive with Ark into a new folder with the same title.

Alternatively you could install 'alien' via the terminal:

sudo apt install alien

then (when you run this command be sure you have cd .. 'd to the correct location first):

sudo alien libfprint-elanmoc2.tar.gz 

This should create a .deb package - no guarantees this will work.

Next install Gdebi (Gnome Debian Installer), run it, select File | location of the newly created .deb file, and select install. Gdebi checks for any dependencies that might be missing or it might just not work.

Splitet to this thread for better Overview. @Ponce-De-Leon