How To Install cmtk on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmtk on Kali Linux. cmtk is Computational Morphometry Toolkit

Introduction

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

What is cmtk

cmtk is:

A software toolkit for computational morphometry of biomedical images, CMTK comprises a set of command line tools and a back-end general-purpose library for processing and I/O.

The command line tools primarily provide the following functionality: registration (affine and nonrigid; single and multi-channel; pairwise and groupwise), image correction (MR bias field estimation; interleaved image artifact correction), processing (filters; combination of segmentations via voting and STAPLE; shape-based averaging), statistics (t-tests; general linear regression).

There are three methods to install cmtk 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 cmtk Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cmtk

Install cmtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cmtk

Install cmtk 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 cmtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cmtk

How To Uninstall cmtk on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cmtk

Uninstall cmtk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cmtk

Remove cmtk Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cmtk

Remove cmtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cmtk

Dependencies

cmtk have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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