[fprint] fprintd compilation error, No package 'polkit' found

[Gnappino Gnappino]

Hi, I finally found the problem, the sources I downloaded were old, 
because they used the old and deprecated policykit, then downloaded the 
latest version, 0.7 and compiled everything!

Thanks for the reply.


Il 27/11/2017 17:58, Bastien Nocera ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 10:48 +0000, Gnappino Gnappino wrote:
>> Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to the linux world, or rather, I've
>> been
>> using it for so many years to develop, but I'm just trying to
>> contribute
>> to linux development now.
>>
>> I would like to do fprintd tests to improve the integration of the
>> login
>> screen with PAM module.
>>
>> I downloaded the sources, I try to compile fprintd but I get this
>> error:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> I can not figure out the situation, I installed all the polkit
>> packages
>> I found with apt search, but I continue to receive this error.
>>
>> I do not know how to proceed, a help would be appreciated.
> You need to install the development package for the library, just like
> you would do for other types of development.
>
> apt-get build-dep fprintd
>
> will probably install all the packages you'll need.
>
> Cheers