How To Install aeskulap on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install aeskulap on Kali Linux. aeskulap is medical image viewer and DICOM network client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aeskulap on Kali Linux.

What is aeskulap

aeskulap is:

Aeskulap is able to load a series of special images stored in the DICOM format for review. Additionally it is able to query and fetch DICOM images from archive nodes (also called PACS) over the network. Aeskulap tries to achieve a full open source replacement for commercially available DICOM viewers.

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

Install aeskulap Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aeskulap

Install aeskulap Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aeskulap using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aeskulap

Install aeskulap Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install aeskulap

How To Uninstall aeskulap on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the aeskulap package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aeskulap

Uninstall aeskulap And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aeskulap and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aeskulap

Remove aeskulap Configurations and Data

To remove aeskulap configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aeskulap

Remove aeskulap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aeskulap

Dependencies

aeskulap have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aeskulap package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.