How To Install sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-frontends.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sane-frontends.x86_64 is Graphical frontend to SANE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sane-frontends.x86_64`

This packages includes the scanadf and xcam programs.

We can use yum to install sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sane-frontends.x86_64.

Install sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sane-frontends.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sane-frontends.x86_64

How To Uninstall sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sane-frontends.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sane-frontends.x86_64

sane-frontends.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/scanadf
/usr/bin/xcam
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends-1.0.14
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends-1.0.14/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends-1.0.14/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sane-frontends-1.0.14/README
/usr/share/man/man1/scanadf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xcam.1.gz

References

sane-frontends.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sane-frontends.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.