biometric-device-discover command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix biometric-device-discover command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

biometric-device-discover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: biometric-device-discover: command not found

In Ubuntu biometric-device-discover is provided by biometric-utils package.

biometric-utils is:

Biometric authentication tools. This package provides the biometric-config-tool and biometric-device-discover tools:

biometric-auth-client: The command line client of the biometric identification framework service;
biometric-config-tool: add, remove, configure the biometric drivers;
biometric-device-discover: discover the devices supported by the biometric framework;

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install biometric-utils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install biometric-utils.

sudo apt -y install biometric-utils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install biometric-utils

In this tutorial we learn how to fix biometric-device-discover command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.