How To Install python-vmtk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vmtk
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-vmtk
python-vmtk is:
The Vascular Modeling Toolkit is a collection of libraries and tools for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation and surface data analysis for image-based modeling of blood vessels.
This package provides the Python interface for vmtk.
There are three methods to install python-vmtk
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 python-vmtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-vmtk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-vmtk
Install python-vmtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-vmtk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-vmtk
Install python-vmtk 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 python-vmtk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-vmtk
How To Uninstall python-vmtk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-vmtk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-vmtk
Uninstall python-vmtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-vmtk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-vmtk
Remove python-vmtk Configurations and Data
To remove python-vmtk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-vmtk
Remove python-vmtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-vmtk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-vmtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vmtk
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.