How To Install teem-apps on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install teem-apps on Ubuntu 18.04. teem-apps is Tools to process and visualize scientific data and images - command line tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install teem-apps on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is teem-apps

teem-apps is:

Teem is a coordinated group of libraries for representing, processing, and visualizing scientific raster data. Teem includes command-line tools that permit the library functions to be quickly applied to files and streams, without having to write any code. The most important and useful libraries in Teem are:

  • Nrrd (and the unu command-line tool on top of it) supports a range of operations for transforming N-dimensional raster data (resample, crop, slice, project, histogram, etc.), as well as the NRRD file format for storing arrays and their meta-information.
  • Gage: fast convolution-based measurements at arbitrary point locations in volume datasets (scalar, vector, tensor, etc.)
  • Mite: a multi-threaded ray-casting volume render with transfer functions based on any quantity Gage can measure
  • Ten: for estimating, processing, and visualizing diffusion tensor fields, including fiber tractography methods.

This package contains some simple command-line tools which provide fast and easy access to the functionality in the various libraries.

There are three methods to install teem-apps on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install teem-apps Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install teem-apps

Install teem-apps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install teem-apps

Install teem-apps 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 teem-apps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install teem-apps

How To Uninstall teem-apps on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the teem-apps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove teem-apps

Uninstall teem-apps And Its Dependencies

To uninstall teem-apps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove teem-apps

Remove teem-apps Configurations and Data

To remove teem-apps configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge teem-apps

Remove teem-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge teem-apps

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install teem-apps package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.