How To Install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8. sane-backends-libs is SANE libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is sane-backends-libs

This package contains the SANE libraries which are needed by applications that want to access scanners.

We can use yum or dnf to install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-backends-libs.

Install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install sane-backends-libs

Install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install sane-backends-libs

How To Uninstall sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove sane-backends-libs

sane-backends-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/cf46a034d573cead777882aa70a7586ce8fdf9
/usr/lib64/libsane.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsane.so.1.0.27
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/8334bf4ede817279438522bb588a9fa0ffdb67
/usr/lib/libsane.so.1
/usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.27

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.