How To Install pixelmed-www on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixelmed-www on Debian 9. pixelmed-www is DICOM implementation containing Image Viewer and a ECG Viewer - jnlp

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixelmed-www on Debian 9.

What is pixelmed-www

pixelmed-www is:

This is a stand-alone DICOM toolkit that implements code for reading and creating DICOM data, DICOM network and file support, a database of DICOM objects, support for display of directories, images, reports and spectra, and DICOM object validation.

This is the web package. Depends on JNLP applications, provides HTML pages

There are three methods to install pixelmed-www 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 pixelmed-www Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pixelmed-www using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pixelmed-www

Install pixelmed-www Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pixelmed-www using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pixelmed-www

Install pixelmed-www 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 pixelmed-www using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pixelmed-www

How To Uninstall pixelmed-www on Debian 9

To uninstall only the pixelmed-www package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pixelmed-www

Uninstall pixelmed-www And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pixelmed-www and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pixelmed-www

Remove pixelmed-www Configurations and Data

To remove pixelmed-www configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pixelmed-www

Remove pixelmed-www configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pixelmed-www configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pixelmed-www

Dependencies

pixelmed-www have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pixelmed-www package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.