How To Install python-surfer on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-surfer on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-surfer is visualize Freesurfers data in Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-surfer on Debian 10.

What is python-surfer

python-surfer is:

This is a Python package for visualization and interaction with cortical surface representations of neuroimaging data from Freesurfer. It extends Mayavi??s powerful visualization engine with a high-level interface for working with MRI and MEG data.

PySurfer offers both a command-line interface designed to broadly replicate Freesurfer??s Tksurfer program as well as a Python library for writing scripts to efficiently explore complex datasets.

There are three methods to install python-surfer on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-surfer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-surfer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-surfer

Install python-surfer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-surfer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-surfer

Install python-surfer 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-surfer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-surfer

How To Uninstall python-surfer on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-surfer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-surfer

Uninstall python-surfer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-surfer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-surfer

Remove python-surfer Configurations and Data

To remove python-surfer configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-surfer

Remove python-surfer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-surfer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-surfer

Dependencies

python-surfer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-surfer package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.