How To Install dicom3tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dicom3tools on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 dicom3tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dicom3tools

How To Uninstall dicom3tools on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dicom3tools

Remove dicom3tools Configurations and Data

To remove dicom3tools configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• dicom3tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dicom3tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.