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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

What happen when you rpmbuild the src package:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/Packages/o/openslide-3.4.1-1.el7.src.rpm

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Brian Bettencourt
<bbettencourt at translate.bio> wrote:
> 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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Mathieu