How To Install xsane-gimp on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsane-gimp on CentOS 8.
What is xsane-gimp
This package provides the regular XSane frontend for the SANE scanner interface, but it works as a GIMP plug-in. You must have GIMP installed to use this package.
We can use yum or dnf to install xsane-gimp on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xsane-gimp.
Install xsane-gimp 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 xsane-gimp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xsane-gimp
Install xsane-gimp 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 xsane-gimp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xsane-gimp
How To Uninstall xsane-gimp on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xsane-gimp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xsane-gimp
xsane-gimp Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/1c93274965af9b056ed333d0104ed26614077e
/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsane-gimp on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.