How To Install sane-frontends on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-frontends on Rocky Linux 8. sane-frontends is Graphical frontend to SANE

Introduction

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

What is sane-frontends

This packages includes the scanadf and xcam programs.

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

Install sane-frontends 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-frontends using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sane-frontends

Install sane-frontends 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-frontends using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-frontends

How To Uninstall sane-frontends on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove sane-frontends

sane-frontends Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/scanadf
/usr/bin/xcam
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/2f94e83a578f655b34ead8cf4535162142f926
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/cce067a4f2016b15a4028d012adfb49e7506dd
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends/README
/usr/share/man/man1/scanadf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xcam.1.gz

References

Summary

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