[fprint] Fprintd on Debian Squeeze ?

[Moritz von Schweinitz]

Hi!

This project is exactly what i have been looking for! I am trying to
integrate basic fingerprint matching into a Point-of-Sale system,
without having to mess aroung the details, and fprintd seems to fill
that gap perfectly!

However: I can't get it to install in any 'clean' fashion on Debian
Squeeze - i have already installed more than 10 packages that
./configure requested, and have been making slow progress, but now i'm
stuck at:

Requested 'gio-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GIO is 2.24.2

GIO seems to be a very essential package (or a part of Glib2), so i am
a bit hesitant to install a non-standard (i.e. not blessed by debian)
version on my machines.

There used to be a fprint package for Debian Sid, but that seems to
have been discontinued in Squeeze.

So my question is if fprintd REALLY requires GIO 2.26, or if 2.24.2
should work, too. In case that it would work with 2.24.2, what config
file do i have to modify, to get the standard ./configure install
process to run?

One more question: I am a bit at a loss regarding Linuxes complete and
utter lack ofbiometrics support. There seem to be a gadzillion (ahem)
'well meaning' projects everywhere, but none really seem to get
anywhere. Then there seems to be a standard BioAPI, but noone seems to
use it.

Fprint seems to be the best approach - but as i just read in the
mailing list archives, it seems to be really hard top buy supported
fingerprint readers for this project.

So: am i right to assume that fprintd is the current cutting edge of
linux fingerprint-matching? And if so, why are the big distros not
supporting it like mad?


Cheers,

M.