How To Install sane-utils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-utils
on Kali Linux.
What is sane-utils
sane-utils is:
SANE stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy” and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).
This package includes the command line frontend scanimage, the saned server and the sane-find-scanner utility, along with their documentation.
There are three methods to install sane-utils
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sane-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install sane-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install sane-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install sane-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
Install sane-utils Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install sane-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sane-utils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sane-utils
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall sane-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sane-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove sane-utils Configurations and Data
To remove sane-utils
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove sane-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sane-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
sane-utils have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- adduser
- lsb-base
- update-inetd
- debconf
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libc6
- libieee1284-3
- libjpeg62-turbo
- libpng16-16
- libsane1
- libsystemd0
- libusb-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-utils
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.