How To Install sane-backends-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sane-backends-libs.x86_64 is SANE libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sane-backends-libs.x86_64`

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.x86_64 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.x86_64.

Install sane-backends-libs.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-backends-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall sane-backends-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sane-backends-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sane-backends-libs.x86_64

sane-backends-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libsane.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsane.so.1.0.24

References

sane-backends-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.