How To Install libinsane on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `libinsane`

Libinsane is the library to access scanners on both Linux and Windows. It’s cross-platform, cross-programming languages, cross-scanners of all the quirks of all the platforms and scanners. libinsane 1.0.9 2.fc34 x86_64 86 k libinsane-1.0.9-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Cross-platform access to image scanners https LGPLv3+ Libinsane is the library to access scanners on both Linux and Windows. It’s cross-platform, cross-programming languages, cross-scanners of all the quirks of all the platforms and scanners.

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

Install libinsane 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 libinsane using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libinsane

Install libinsane 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 libinsane using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libinsane

How To Uninstall libinsane on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libinsane

libinsane Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/4fbf7ef58217bf1f497e876afb635febe06c5f
/usr/lib/libinsane.so.1
/usr/lib/libinsane.so.1.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libinsane
/usr/share/doc/libinsane/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libinsane/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/libinsane
/usr/share/licenses/libinsane/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/5392ffd026b82ed89e977422d34c80969daae7
/usr/lib64/libinsane.so.1
/usr/lib64/libinsane.so.1.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libinsane
/usr/share/doc/libinsane/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libinsane/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/libinsane
/usr/share/licenses/libinsane/LICENSE

References

[libinsane website](https://doc.openpaper.work/libinsane/latest/ https://doc.openpaper.work/libinsane/latest/)

Summary

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