How To Install mia-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mia-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mia-tools
mia-tools is:
Command lines tools to run general purpose image processing tasks on 2D and 3D gray scale images, and basic operations on triangular meshes. Supported image processing algorithms are image filtering, combining, image registration, motion compensation for image series, and the estimation of various statistics over images. This package also contains the nipype interfaces for these command line tools.
There are three methods to install mia-tools 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 mia-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mia-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mia-tools
Install mia-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mia-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mia-tools
Install mia-tools 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 mia-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mia-tools
How To Uninstall mia-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mia-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mia-tools
Uninstall mia-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mia-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mia-tools
Remove mia-tools Configurations and Data
To remove mia-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mia-tools
Remove mia-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mia-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mia-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mia-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
