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

[Brian Bettencourt]

Adam, thanks for such a quick response.

This is a critical server, not likely to have an OS update.  Bummer!

BB

> On Apr 5, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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