To remove sane or xsane: if sane is installed in /usr/: rm -rf /usr/lib/sane rm -rf /usr/lib/libsane* rm -rf /usr/include/sane rm -rf /usr/etc/sane.d rm -rf /usr/share/sane* rm -rf /usr/bin/scanimage rm -rf /usr/bin/xscanimage if sane is installed in /usr/local/: rm -rf /usr/local/lib/sane rm -rf /usr/local/lib/libsane* rm -rf /usr/local/include/sane rm -rf /usr/local/etc/sane.d rm -rf /usr/local/share/sane* rm -rf /usr/local/bin/scanimage rm -rf /usr/local/bin/xscanimage For xsane in /usr: rm -rf /usr/bin/xsane rm -rf /usr/share/sane/xsane For xsane in /usr/local rm -rf /usr/local/bin/xsane rm -rf /usr/local/share/sane/xsane xsane also installs translation tables for different languages, the path is different on different systems, but find / -name "xsane.mo" should list the directories and in these directories there also could be sane-umax.mo and sane-pnm.mo Oliver Rauch