How To Install sane-backends-daemon on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon in Fedora 36. sane-backends-daemon is Scanner network daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. 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 Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Fedora 36

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 Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/d745cbac85a23b18e280a7f104fa53e57c2a14
/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).