How To Install wine-twain on CentOS 8

wine-twain is Twain support for wine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-twain on CentOS 8.

What is wine-twain

Twain support for wine

We can use yum or dnf to install wine-twain on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wine-twain.

Install wine-twain 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 wine-twain using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wine-twain

Install wine-twain 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 wine-twain using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wine-twain

How To Uninstall wine-twain on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wine-twain package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wine-twain

wine-twain Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/6c2279aa063c3764de357b8aa2b3a2788145a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/a6017d94e9deed1fcdd45776de96593f569e22
/usr/lib64/wine/sane.ds.so
/usr/lib64/wine/twain_32.dll.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-twain on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.