Installation and first run

System requirements

Requirements	Details

Downloading packages

To install Biometrics for Remote Desktop (Linux version) Workstation, download two packages (FT Plugins package and product installation package) corresponding to your OS and architecture:

For Debian-based Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, Debian, Mint), download .deb packages.
For other Linux distributions, select .tar.gz archives.

The latest program version is available at www.biometrics-for-remote-desktop.com.

Installing from .deb Package

Simply install both downloaded packages with your preferred package manager or from the terminal by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install ./ftplugins-*.deb ./ftbio-*.deb

Alternatively, you can use dpkg:

$ sudo dpkg -i ftplugins-*.deb ftbio-*.deb

If installed separately, FT Plugins must be installed first, otherwise the product installation may fail due to missing dependencies.

Installing from .tar.gz archive

Unpack archives to the /opt:

$ sudo tar -zxf ftplugins-*.tar.gz -C /opt
$ sudo tar -zxf ftbio-*.tar.gz -C /opt

Automated setup

To run the automated setup script your OS must have systemd, which most modern Linux distributions include. Also, packages libusb-1.0 and libudev1 must be installed.

Run the setup script with -i or --install option and it will do the rest:

$ sudo /opt/ftbio/bin/ftbio-setup.sh -i

Manual setup

Alternatively, you can start the daemon manually. In some distributions of Linux you need administrator rights for correct daemon functioning. You must run it as a root:

$ sudo /opt/ftbio/sbin/ftbiod

or:

$ su -c "/opt/ftbio/sbin/ftbiod"

Now you can use biometric and fingerprint scanners in remote desktop session. To see the list of all supported options, run:

$ /opt/ftbio/sbin/ftbiod -h