My Dell Inspiron laptop comes with a Goodix fingerprint sensor identified as ID 27c6:538c. It seems that this sensor doesn’t work out of the box, but Dell have a special repo with the drivers for Ubuntu.
I’m currently using Ubuntu 21.10, but would like to switch to Fedora.
I found this site that explains how to install the Ubuntu driver but for a different Dell laptop and makes use of an Arch AUR package.
The driver itself is found in this site: Index of /updates/dists/focal-somerville-melisa
How can I install the driver for the fingerprint sensor from the Dell repo?
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Is there the possibility to manually install the binary driver from the Dell repos 
Installing anything is possible. How it is designed to be installed matters.
It is possible (or even probable) that a binary driver for ubuntu will fail to work on fedora.
I found that there is a copr package to make this particular fingerprint sensor to work on Fedora.
Here is the link: manciukic/libfprint-tod-goodix Copr
I managed to install it and it is working properly.
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Thanks for the update.
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