How To Install openslide on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide on Rocky Linux 8. openslide is C library for reading virtual slides

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openslide on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openslide.

Install openslide 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openslide

Install openslide 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openslide

How To Uninstall openslide on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove openslide

openslide Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.