openslide 3.4 for centOS? yum has old version, problematic for openslide-python

[Adam Goode]

Can you use CentOS 7? It has the newer version of OpenSlide. CentOS 6
isn't likely to be updated.


Adam

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Brian Bettencourt
<bbettencourt at translate.bio> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Used yum to install openslide on centOS box.  Installs fine, but the version
> in the repository is only 3.2.6.
>
> This is a problem, because when trying to use openslide-python, you get the
> following error message, indicating that 3.4.0 is required:
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "trySlide.py", line 3, in <module>
>
>     import openslide
>
>   File
> "/opt/software/python2.7/current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openslide/__init__.py",
> line 29, in <module>
>
>     from openslide import lowlevel
>
>   File
> "/opt/software/python2.7/current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openslide/lowlevel.py",
> line 223, in <module>
>
>     raise OpenSlideError('OpenSlide >= 3.4.0 required')
>
> openslide.lowlevel.OpenSlideError: OpenSlide >= 3.4.0 required
>
>
>
> Can openslide 3.4 please be put into the repository s/t it can be installed
> via yum?  Would prefer not to have to build from source the old-fashioned
> way.
>
>
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
>
> BB
>
>
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