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plwrenn

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 11

[request] Protector Suite for Linux - UPEK fingerprint scanners

Would anyone be willing to work on a PKGBUILD for this. I will do testing.

http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/

Biometric logon for Linux operating systems. Supports Gnome and KDE4, KDE3.5 desktop environment and logon. For experienced developers there is also BSAPI SDK which allows to controll UPEK fingerprint readers on Linux based systems.

Supported devices: TCD41, TCD42, TCD50, TCD21 (TFM), TCS4B, TCS4C, TCS4E, TCS4K, TCS5B
Supported USB readers: Eikon I (TCRE3C: TCS3C+TCD42), Eikon II (TCRD4C: TCS4C+TCD50), EikonToGo (TCRG4C: TCS4C+TCD50), TCRZ (TCS3B+TCD41)

Contains installation packages for following distributions:

Mandriva 2009.1
Mandriva 2008.1
Ubuntu 9.04
Fedora Core 10
Debian

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [request] Protector Suite for Linux - UPEK fingerprint scanners

No interest in this myself, but you should ask them to provide a source package so you can create a proper Arch package - repackaging debs/rpms is kludgy at best.

jac

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Registered: 2009-05-19

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Re: [request] Protector Suite for Linux - UPEK fingerprint scanners

Hey! I go to see if anybody has mentioned this on the forums yet and find this. This is what I've come up with, but I have no idea if it works because apparently it is 32bit only, and I can't find anything else to find depends/etc through so it needs a lot of work. (not to mention that this is only my second PKGBUILD).

pkgname=ps-for-linux
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="UPEK fingerprint reader software"
arch=('i686')
url="http://www.upek.com/"
license=('unknown')
depends=()
makedepends=('deb2targz')
source=($pkgname-$pkgver.deb)
noextract=($pkgname-$pkgver.deb)
md5sums=('69809f555752b95c0a448e04c6ede3e9')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir"
  deb2targz "$pkgname-$pkgver.deb"
  tar xf "$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"

}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir"

  cp -r etc/ lib/ usr/ "$pkgdir"
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

I hope that will be a starting point for you to make a pkg out of and then run something like namcap on to see where things need to be added. Also, I don't know if one of the other rpm's would be a better fit for Arch's directory structure, or if this should be put in /opt or something.

Have you requested a source package fro them yet?

plwrenn

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 11

Re: [request] Protector Suite for Linux - UPEK fingerprint scanners

I also took a go at it. I used the RPM packages. Is it better to use the debs?

pkgname=ps-for-linux
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Biometric logon for Linux operating systems. Supports Gnome and KDE4, KDE3.5 desktop environment and logon.'
arch=('i686')
url="http://www.upek.com/"
license=('unknown')
depends=()
makedepends=(rpmextract)
source=($pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i586.rpm)
noextract=()
md5sums=('d7466792a98190de5697a5e450ac311f')

build() {
  cd $pkgdir
  rpmextract.sh $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i586.rpm
}

# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

Have you requested a source package fro them yet?

No I have not.

It's working on my T510 Thinkpad; I was able to get my fingerprint's enrolled and I have had some success with the pam module. I authenticated sudo, su, and login, but not KDM. It crashes KDM when I try.