How To Install openslide on CentOS 8

openslide is C library for reading virtual slides

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide on CentOS 8.

What is openslide

The OpenSlide library allows programs to access virtual slide files regardless of the underlying image format.

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

Install openslide on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install openslide

Install openslide on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install openslide

How To Uninstall openslide on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove openslide

openslide Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/1dea49d581a68b80c72afc585e56eeacf29f70
/usr/lib64/libopenslide.so.0
/usr/lib64/libopenslide.so.0.4.1
/usr/share/doc/openslide
/usr/share/doc/openslide/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/openslide/README.txt
/usr/share/licenses/openslide
/usr/share/licenses/openslide/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/openslide/lgpl-2.1.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.