How To Install python3-surfer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-surfer
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-surfer
python3-surfer is:
This is a Python3 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 python3-surfer
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-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 python3-surfer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-surfer
Install python3-surfer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-surfer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-surfer
Install python3-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-surfer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-surfer
How To Uninstall python3-surfer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-surfer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-surfer
Uninstall python3-surfer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-surfer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-surfer
Remove python3-surfer Configurations and Data
To remove python3-surfer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-surfer
Remove python3-surfer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-surfer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-surfer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-surfer
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.