How To Install libnifti2-2 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libnifti2-2 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libnifti2-2 is IO libraries for the NIfTI-1 data format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti2-2 on Debian 12.

What is libnifti2-2

libnifti2-2 is:

Niftilib is a set of i/o libraries for reading and writing files in the NIfTI-1 data format. NIfTI-1 is a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance image (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) brain images.

This package contains the shared library of libnifti.

There are three methods to install libnifti2-2 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libnifti2-2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libnifti2-2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnifti2-2

Install libnifti2-2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnifti2-2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnifti2-2

Install libnifti2-2 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 libnifti2-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnifti2-2

How To Uninstall libnifti2-2 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libnifti2-2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnifti2-2

Uninstall libnifti2-2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnifti2-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnifti2-2

Remove libnifti2-2 Configurations and Data

To remove libnifti2-2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnifti2-2

Remove libnifti2-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnifti2-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnifti2-2

Dependencies

libnifti2-2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti2-2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.