fprintd software package provides D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fprintd
fprintd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fprintd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fprintd *
You will get with fprintd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Miscellaneous |
| Package | fprintd |
| Version | 0.5.1-1 |
| Description | D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access |
| Sub Section | misc |