How To Install dicom3tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dicom3tools on Debian 9.
What is dicom3tools
dicom3tools is:
Command line utilities for creating, modifying, dumping and validating files of DICOM attributes. Support conversion of some proprietary medical image formats to DICOM. Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data, and some proprietary versions of that such as SPI.
There are three methods to install dicom3tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dicom3tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dicom3tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dicom3tools
Install dicom3tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dicom3tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dicom3tools
Install dicom3tools 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 dicom3tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dicom3tools
How To Uninstall dicom3tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dicom3tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dicom3tools
Uninstall dicom3tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dicom3tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dicom3tools
Remove dicom3tools Configurations and Data
To remove dicom3tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dicom3tools
Remove dicom3tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dicom3tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dicom3tools
Dependencies
dicom3tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dicom3tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.