How To Install libnifti2 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti2 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libnifti2
libnifti2 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 the low-level IO library niftiio, low-level IO library znzlib and the nifticdf shared library that provides functions to compute cumulative distributions and their inverses.
There are three methods to install libnifti2 on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnifti2
Install libnifti2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnifti2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnifti2
Install libnifti2 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libnifti2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnifti2
How To Uninstall libnifti2 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libnifti2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnifti2
Uninstall libnifti2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnifti2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnifti2
Remove libnifti2 Configurations and Data
To remove libnifti2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnifti2
Remove libnifti2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnifti2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnifti2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnifti2 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
