How To Install sane-airscan on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan in Fedora 36. sane-airscan is SANE backend for AirScan (eSCL) and WSD document scanners

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan on Fedora 36.

What is `sane-airscan`

This package contains a tool for discovering scanning devices in cases when automatic discovery fails - airscan-discover.

We can use yum or dnf to install sane-airscan on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-airscan.

Install sane-airscan on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sane-airscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sane-airscan

Install sane-airscan on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sane-airscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-airscan

How To Uninstall sane-airscan on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sane-airscan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sane-airscan

sane-airscan Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/airscan-discover
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/9c5fb2315ef60b7f98fba2d7b319c865610818
/usr/share/licenses/sane-airscan
/usr/share/licenses/sane-airscan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/sane-airscan/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/airscan-discover.1.gz

References

sane-airscan website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-airscan on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).