How To Install sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. sane-backends-libs.i686 is SANE libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sane-backends-libs.i686`

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

We can use yum to install sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-backends-libs.i686.

Install sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-backends-libs.i686

How To Uninstall sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sane-backends-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sane-backends-libs.i686

sane-backends-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libsane.so.1
/usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.24

References

sane-backends-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.