How To Install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8.
What is sane-backends-daemon
This package contains saned which is the daemon that allows remote clients to access image acquisition devices available on the local host.
We can use yum or dnf to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-backends-daemon.
Install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sane-backends-daemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sane-backends-daemon
Install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sane-backends-daemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sane-backends-daemon
How To Uninstall sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sane-backends-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sane-backends-daemon
sane-backends-daemon Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/2f104d35e71b48dfe5a97b9ef757fc6596fcbc
/usr/lib/systemd/system/saned.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/66-saned.rules
/usr/sbin/saned
/usr/share/man/man8/saned.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.