How to remove (uninstall) XSane in Devuan Linux

Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020

Removing XSane Image Scanning Program in Devuan Linux is very simple and fast. You should run those two commands:

$ sudo apt-get purge xsane
$ sudo apt autoremove xsane

or combine them into one:

$ sudo apt-get purge xsane && sudo apt autoremove xsane

output:

$ sudo apt-get purge xsane && sudo apt autoremove xsane

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  xsane-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xsane*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 931 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 104449 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xsane (0.999-5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'xsane' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xsane-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 4,543 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 104421 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xsane-common (0.999-5) ...