How To Install nifti2dicom on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nifti2dicom on Debian 10.
What is nifti2dicom
nifti2dicom is:
Nifti2Dicom is a convertion tool that converts 3D NIfTI files (and other formats supported by ITK, including Analyze, MetaImage Nrrd and VTK) to DICOM. Unlike other conversion tools, it can import a DICOM file that is used to import the patient and study DICOM tags, and allows you to edit the accession number and other DICOM tags, in order to create a valid DICOM that can be imported in a PACS.
This package includes the command line tools.
There are three methods to install nifti2dicom on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nifti2dicom Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nifti2dicom using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nifti2dicom
Install nifti2dicom Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nifti2dicom using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nifti2dicom
Install nifti2dicom 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 nifti2dicom using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nifti2dicom
How To Uninstall nifti2dicom on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nifti2dicom package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nifti2dicom
Uninstall nifti2dicom And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nifti2dicom and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nifti2dicom
Remove nifti2dicom Configurations and Data
To remove nifti2dicom configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nifti2dicom
Remove nifti2dicom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nifti2dicom configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nifti2dicom
Dependencies
nifti2dicom have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nifti2dicom package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.