No Way Know How

I've installed libcrypto.so.0.9.8, or the package that contains it, or whatever, I can't remember now it was last week for God's sake. Useful record, this, right? And I had a bit of a "breakthrough" in terms of starting to figure out what, roughly, I'm supposed to be doing. The package downloaded from http://suse.mes.edu.cu/SLES_11_SP2/CD2/suse/src/libfprint-0.0.6-18.20.1.src.rpm contains various files and I believe it's to one of these that the patch is supposed to be applied. (when I'm home I'll have a look and try to list which.)  I did the patch -p1 < libfprint..blah thing and got some of the patch elements to apply, but not all. Still not sure whether this is going to work with Wheezy of if it might only work with Sid.

Pretty sure I've done some more low-level tinkering that I've not recorded here, but I must've been pretty confident about it. Not so this, my first attempt to get the fingerprint scanner working. I've done a fair bit of reading rather than my usual trial-and-error cut'n'paste command line hackery and here's where I'm at: >sudo apt-get install fprint-demo gets me a way to test functionality before getting too deep into the suggestions here >lsusb shows me that the validity sensor is recognised, but I think I'm missing the drivers * which can be found here , but need converting from rpm to deb >sudo apt-get install alien >sudo alien Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.4-100.00.x86_64.rpm >sudo dpkg -i validity-sensor-setup_4.4-101_amd64.deb Guess I need to go for a reboot now before I can see if it works. ... Nope, still getting Status: No devices found. Could it be that I need the fprint libraries? > sudo apt-get inst...