fprintd-enroll command not found

Introduction

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

fprintd-enroll: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fprintd-enroll: command not found

Solutions to fprintd-enroll: command not found

How To Fix fprintd-enroll: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fprintd-enroll is provided by fprintd package.

fprintd is:

fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers libfprint functionality over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. By adding this daemon layer above libfprint, various problems related to multiple applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers get solved.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fprintd

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

You can also use apt command to install fprintd.

sudo apt -y install fprintd

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

sudo aptitude install fprintd

Summary

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