How To Install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8. openslide-tools is Command line tools for openslide

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is openslide-tools

The openslide-tools package contains command line tools for working with virtual slides.

We can use yum or dnf to install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openslide-tools.

Install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install openslide-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openslide-tools

Install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install openslide-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openslide-tools

How To Uninstall openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the openslide-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openslide-tools

openslide-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/openslide-quickhash1sum
/usr/bin/openslide-show-properties
/usr/bin/openslide-write-png
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/d049720d61df9e27588ace315292f910d2ffbf
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/a01beb48af827615f4473823631a05f2a365e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/2a257e7e80ebca099b8cfc7a1557672601753b
/usr/share/man/man1/openslide-quickhash1sum.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openslide-show-properties.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openslide-write-png.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.