How to build fprintd on Ubuntu 10.10?

Question

ubuntu

I can't seem to build fprintd (it's required for my fingerprint reader). I took it from git (not in the repository), but when configuring it gives out:

checking for DAEMON… no
configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 dbus-glib-1 gmodule-2.0 polkit >= 0.8 polkit-dbus) were not met:

No package 'polkit' found
No package 'polkit-dbus' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DAEMON_CFLAGS
and DAEMON_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I searched all over the Internet, but did not find anything intelligible. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

I put all of this.
[email protected]:~/sources/fprintd$ apt-cache search polkit
libpolkit-agent-1-0 - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
libpolkit-agent-1-dev - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API - development files
libpolkit-backend-1- 0 - PolicyKit backend API
libpolkit-backend-1-dev - PolicyKit backend API - development files
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 - PolicyKit Authorization API
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev - PolicyKit Authorization API - development files
libpolkit-gtk-1- 0 - PolicyKit GTK+ API
libpolkit-gtk-1-dev - PolicyKit GTK+ API - development files
polkit-kde-1 - KDE dialogs for PolicyKit
gksu-polkit - command line utility to run programs as root
libgksu-polkit-dev - simple gobject-based API to run programs as root (development files)
libgksu-polkit0 - simple gobject-based API to run programs as root
muon - package manager for KDE
libpolkit-qt-1-0 - PolicyKit- qt-1 library
libpolkit-qt-1-dev - PolicyKit-qt-1 development files
Perhaps you should include some repositories, but which ones? Google says nothing about it.

Answer 2

Say no in the repository, but I found it with the first query in Google: launchpad.net/ ~kachristmas/+archive/ppa/

Answer 3

Ok, I built fprintd, but I still can't see my AES1610 device:
[email protected]:~/sources/fprintd/src$ sudo ./fprintd
Could not open fprintd.conf: No such file or directory
fp:debug [
fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upekts fp
:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes4000
fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes2501
fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver uru4000
fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver vcom5s
fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upeksonly
Launching FprintObject
** (fprintd:18951): WARNING **: Failed to get name: Connection ":1.60" is not allowed to own the service "net.reactivated.Fprint" due to security policies in the configuration file

Answer 4

Problem solved. What needed to be done:
download and build fprintd from the git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/fprintd repository
download and build libfprint from the git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint
repository The official website is hopelessly outdated.