How To Install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34

gscan2pdf is GUI for producing a multipage PDF from a scan

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34.

What is gscan2pdf

A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan.

We can use yum or dnf to install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gscan2pdf.

Install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gscan2pdf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gscan2pdf

Install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gscan2pdf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gscan2pdf

How To Uninstall gscan2pdf on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gscan2pdf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gscan2pdf

gscan2pdf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gscan2pdf
/usr/share/applications/net.sourceforge.gscan2pdf.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gscan2pdf
/usr/share/doc/gscan2pdf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gscan2pdf/History
/usr/share/gscan2pdf
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/180_degree.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/crop.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/gscan2pdf-papyrus.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/gscan2pdf.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/hand-tool.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/mail-attach.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/pdf.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/scanner.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/stock-rotate-180.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/stock-rotate-270.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/stock-rotate-90.svg
/usr/share/gscan2pdf/stock-selection-all-16.png
/usr/share/help/C
/usr/share/help/C/gscan2pdf
/usr/share/help/C/gscan2pdf/documentation.html
/usr/share/licenses/gscan2pdf
/usr/share/licenses/gscan2pdf/LICENCE
/usr/share/locale/ab/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gscan2pdf.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gscan2pdf.1p.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/net.sourceforge.gscan2pdf.appdata.xml
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Bboxtree.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Canvas
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Canvas.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Canvas/Bbox.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Canvas/ListIter.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Canvas/TreeIter.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/ComboBoxText.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Config.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Cuneiform.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/MultipleMessage.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Renumber.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Save.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Scan
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Scan.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Scan/CLI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Dialog/Scan/Image_Sane.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Document.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/EntryCompletion.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Frontend
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Frontend/CLI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Frontend/Image_Sane.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/NetPBM.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Ocropus.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Page.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/PageRange.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Scanner
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Scanner/Options.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Scanner/Profile.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Tesseract.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Translation.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Gscan2pdf/Unpaper.pm
/usr/share/pixmaps/gscan2pdf.svg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gscan2pdf on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.