How To Install mricron on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mricron
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mricron
mricron is:
This is a GUI-based visualization and analysis tool for (functional) magnetic resonance imaging. MRIcron can be used to create 2D or 3D renderings of statistical overlay maps on brain anatomy images. Moreover, it aids drawing anatomical regions-of-interest (ROI), or lesion mapping, as well as basic analysis of functional timeseries (e.g. creating plots of peristimulus signal-change).
In addition to ‘mricron’, this package also provides ‘dcm2nii’ that supports converting DICOM and PAR/REC images into the NIfTI format, and ’npm’ for non-parametric data analysis.
There are three methods to install mricron
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mricron Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mricron
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mricron
Install mricron Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mricron
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mricron
Install mricron 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 mricron
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mricron
How To Uninstall mricron on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mricron
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mricron
Uninstall mricron And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mricron
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mricron
Remove mricron Configurations and Data
To remove mricron
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mricron
Remove mricron configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mricron
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mricron
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mricron
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.