How To Install minc-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minc-tools on Debian 9.
What is minc-tools
minc-tools is:
This package contains tools to manipulate MINC files.
The Minc file format is a highly flexible medical image file format built on top of the NetCDF generalized data format. The format is simple, self-describing, extensible, portable and N-dimensional, with programming interfaces for both low-level data access and high-level volume manipulation. On top of the libraries is a suite of generic image-file manipulation tools. The format, libraries and tools are designed for use in a medical-imaging research environment: they are simple and powerful and make no attempt to provide a pretty interface to users.
There are three methods to install minc-tools 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 minc-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 minc-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install minc-tools
Install minc-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install minc-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install minc-tools
Install minc-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install minc-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install minc-tools
How To Uninstall minc-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the minc-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove minc-tools
Uninstall minc-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall minc-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove minc-tools
Remove minc-tools Configurations and Data
To remove minc-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge minc-tools
Remove minc-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove minc-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minc-tools
Dependencies
minc-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minc-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.