How To Install libnifti-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libnifti-dev
libnifti-dev is:
Niftilib is a set of i/o libraries for reading and writing files in the NIfTI-1 data format. NIfTI-1 is a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance image (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) brain images.
This package provides the header files and static libraries of libniftiio, znzlib and libnifticdf.
There are three methods to install libnifti-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libnifti-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnifti-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnifti-dev
Install libnifti-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnifti-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnifti-dev
Install libnifti-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libnifti-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnifti-dev
How To Uninstall libnifti-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libnifti-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnifti-dev
Uninstall libnifti-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnifti-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnifti-dev
Remove libnifti-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libnifti-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnifti-dev
Remove libnifti-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnifti-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnifti-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
