I tried moving on to build, compile and install it seemed to install one file but not the other:
And when I tried installing the newest version of fprintd I got this:
Here’s the all of the code copy/pasted:
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint.git cdlibfprint
Cloning into ‘cdlibfprint’…
remote: Enumerating objects: 9581, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1544/1544), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (281/281), done.
remote: Total 9581 (delta 1352), reused 1431 (delta 1263), pack-reused 8037
Receiving objects: 100% (9581/9581), 10.07 MiB | 18.58 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7322/7322), done.
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ option(‘drivers’,
bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'drivers',' samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ description: 'Drivers to integrate, "default" selects the default set, "all" selects all drivers', description:: command not found samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ type: 'string', Command 'type:' not found, did you mean: command 'typer' from snap erlang (22.3.4.1) See 'snap info <snapname>' for additional versions. samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ value: 'goodixmoc') bash: syntax error near unexpected token
)’
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ nano meson_options.txt
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ meson builddir
Command ‘meson’ not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install meson
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ ninja -C builddir
ninja: Entering directory `builddir’
ninja: fatal: chdir to ‘builddir’ - No such file or directory
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ sudo apt install meson
[sudo] password for samlane86:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra gstreamer1.0-vaapi
libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 libva-wayland2
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
meson
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.
Need to get 438 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,827 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 Index of /ubuntu impish/universe amd64 meson all 0.57.0+really0.56.2-0.1ubuntu1 [438 kB]
Fetched 438 kB in 1s (573 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package meson.
(Reading database … 198109 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/meson_0.57.0+really0.56.2-0.1ubuntu1_all.deb …
Unpacking meson (0.57.0+really0.56.2-0.1ubuntu1) …
Setting up meson (0.57.0+really0.56.2-0.1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) …
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ git clone libfprint / fprintd · GitLab cd fprintd
fatal: Too many arguments.
usage: git clone [] [–] []
-v, --verbose be more verbose
-q, --quiet be more quiet
--progress force progress reporting
--reject-shallow don't clone shallow repository
-n, --no-checkout don't create a checkout
--bare create a bare repository
--mirror create a mirror repository (implies bare)
-l, --local to clone from a local repository
--no-hardlinks don't use local hardlinks, always copy
-s, --shared setup as shared repository
--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]
initialize submodules in the clone
--recursive ... alias of --recurse-submodules
-j, --jobs <n> number of submodules cloned in parallel
--template <template-directory>
directory from which templates will be used
--reference <repo> reference repository
--reference-if-able <repo>
reference repository
--dissociate use --reference only while cloning
-o, --origin <name> use <name> instead of 'origin' to track upstream
-b, --branch <branch>
checkout <branch> instead of the remote's HEAD
-u, --upload-pack <path>
path to git-upload-pack on the remote
--depth <depth> create a shallow clone of that depth
--shallow-since <time>
create a shallow clone since a specific time
--shallow-exclude <revision>
deepen history of shallow clone, excluding rev
--single-branch clone only one branch, HEAD or --branch
--no-tags don't clone any tags, and make later fetches not to follow them
--shallow-submodules any cloned submodules will be shallow
--separate-git-dir <gitdir>
separate git dir from working tree
-c, --config <key=value>
set config inside the new repository
--server-option <server-specific>
option to transmit
-4, --ipv4 use IPv4 addresses only
-6, --ipv6 use IPv6 addresses only
--filter <args> object filtering
--remote-submodules any cloned submodules will use their remote-tracking branch
--sparse initialize sparse-checkout file to include only files at root
samlane86@samlane86-Laptop:~$ meson builddir
ERROR: Neither directory contains a build file meson.build.