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Install fprintd-tod with support for Broadcom readers on Debian testing
#!/usr/bin/env sh
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TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
# Install build dependencies
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -qq build-dep -y libfprint-2-2
# Clone the closed-source library and firmware
cd "${TEMPDIR}" || exit
git clone --depth=1 --branch jammy git://git.launchpad.net/libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom
cd libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom || exit
sudo cp lib/udev/rules.d/60-libfprint-2-device-broadcom.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libfprint-2-device-broadcom.rules
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libfprint-2-device-broadcom.rules
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1
sudo cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-2-tod-1-broadcom.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-2-tod-1-broadcom.so
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-2-tod-1-broadcom.so
sudo cp -r var/lib/fprint/fw /var/lib/fprint/
sudo chown -R root:root /var/lib/fprint/fw
# Clone libfprint, switch to the correct tag, patch and build
# LIBFPRINT_VERSION=$(dpkg-query --showformat='${Version}' --show fprintd | cut -d '-' -f 1)
LIBFPRINT_VERSION=$(dpkg-query --showformat='${Version}' --show libfprint-2-2 | cut -d '-' -f 1 | cut -d ":" -f 2)
cd "${TEMPDIR}" || exit
git clone --branch v${LIBFPRINT_VERSION}+tod1 --depth=1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/libfprint.git
cd "${TEMPDIR}"/libfprint || exit
sed -e "/subdir('tests')/s/^/#/g" -i meson.build
sed -e "/subdir('examples')/s/^/#/g" -i meson.build
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build || exit
meson compile
sudo cp libfprint/tod/libfprint-2-tod.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2-tod.so.1
sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2-tod.so.1
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2-tod.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2-tod.so
sudo cp libfprint/libfprint-2.so.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2.so.2
## Remove file incorrectly copied in a previous revision of this gist
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-2-tod.so.1
cd "${TEMPDIR}"
# Configure fprintd to not sleep
sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/fprintd.service.d
cat > override.conf <<EOF
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/fprintd --no-timeout
EOF
sudo cp override.conf /etc/systemd/system/fprintd.service.d/override.conf
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart fprintd
rm -rf "${TEMPDIR}"
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Thanks! It works with dell latitude 7330 on debian 13 trixie (so stable, not testing). Thanks to that script I am not forced to switching to ubuntu, but to debian, which in my opinion is better... But there is one line, I had to change: git clone --depth=1 --branch jammy git://git.launchpad.net/libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom must have been changed to git clone --depth=1 --branch ubuntu/jammy git://git.launchpad.net/libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom, because git threw an error, that jammy branch is not found, but after that fix is works perfect! And even after suspend it works (at least in my case).

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