How To Install sane-frontends on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-frontends on CentOS 8. sane-frontends is Graphical frontend to SANE

Introduction

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

What is sane-frontends

This packages includes the scanadf and xcam programs.

We can use yum or dnf to install sane-frontends on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-frontends.

Install sane-frontends 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-frontends using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-frontends

Install sane-frontends 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-frontends using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sane-frontends

How To Uninstall sane-frontends on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove sane-frontends

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Summary

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