How To Install mricron on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mricron on Debian 10.
What is mricron
mricron is:
This is a GUI-based visualization and analysis tool for (functional) magnetic resonance imaging. MRIcron can be used to create 2D or 3D renderings of statistical overlay maps on brain anatomy images. Moreover, it aids drawing anatomical regions-of-interest (ROI), or lesion mapping, as well as basic analysis of functional timeseries (e.g. creating plots of peristimulus signal-change).
In addition to ‘mricron’, this package also provides ‘dcm2nii’ that supports converting DICOM and PAR/REC images into the NIfTI format, and ’npm’ for non-parametric data analysis.
There are three methods to install mricron 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 mricron Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mricron using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mricron
Install mricron Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mricron using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mricron
Install mricron 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 mricron using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mricron
How To Uninstall mricron on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mricron package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mricron
Uninstall mricron And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mricron and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mricron
Remove mricron Configurations and Data
To remove mricron configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mricron
Remove mricron configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mricron configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mricron
Dependencies
mricron have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- mricron-data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mricron package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
