How To Install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8. sane-backends-daemon is Scanner network daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8.

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 CentOS 8. 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 CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sane-backends-daemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-backends-daemon

Install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sane-backends-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sane-backends-daemon

How To Uninstall sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sane-backends-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sane-backends-daemon

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-backends-daemon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.