# SANE - Download

## Stable Source

The SANE FTP server provides the following packages:

- sane-backends - includes: backends (scanner drivers), command-line-frontend (scanimage), network scanning daemon (saned) and SANE-API documentation.
- sane-frontends - includes: graphical frontends (scanning applications) xscanimage and xcam, command-line-frontend scanadf. You don't need this package if you use one of the more advanced graphical frontends like XSane. For a list of frontends, have a look at the fontends page.

The latest stable source code is available from the following official sites:

- ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/ (USA)

The SANE distribution is mirrored at these fine sites:

- ftp://ftp.de.mostang.com/pub/sane/ (Germany)
- ftp://ftp.no.mostang.com/pub/sane/ (Norway)
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at and http://gd.tuwien.ac.at (Austria)

On the following site SANE is not uploaded automatically, so new versions may be available here a bit later:

- ftp://metalab.unc.edu

Both sane-backends and sane-frontends can be compiled and installed on a variety of different platforms. See our list of supported platforms for details.

## Unstable (Development) Source

The Debian project provides a CVS server ("Alioth") with anonymous (read-only) and developer (read-write) access to the development (unstable) tree of the SANE sources. See our CVS page for more information.

There are also daily CVS snapshots and inofficial snapshots that may contain fixes or new features that are not in the latest release yet. Keep in mind that these are development versions. They aren't tested at all.

## Binaries

Here are pointers to some binary distributions of SANE. If you want to add something to this list, just file a bug report at our bug tracking system and add a pointer to the relevant binary. After review we'll add the link to this section.

### Linux

- Debian woody (stable): updated sane-backends, sane-frontends and XSane binary packages for i386 and hppa
- Debian sid (unstable): sane-backends, sane-frontends, and XSane for all Debian platforms
- RPM based distributions (RPM finder): sane-backends, sane-frontends, and XSane
- Slackware 8.1: sane-backends, sane-frontends and XSane

### Irix

- SGI freeware: sane-backends, sane-frontends and XSane

### OS/2

- Franz Bakan's SANE for OS/2 pages
- Paul Floyd's SANE-1.0.5 for OS/2 page

### HP-UX 10.20 / 11.00

- SANE and XSane for HP-UX binaries and description how to compile

### Solaris

- You can find binaries of XSane, sane-backends and sane-frontends for Solaris (Sparc and Intel) on www.blastwave.org

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