How To Install python-vtkgdcm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vtkgdcm
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-vtkgdcm
python-vtkgdcm is:
Grassroots DiCoM is a C++ library for DICOM medical files. It is automatically wrapped to python/C#/Java (using swig). It supports RAW,JPEG (lossy/lossless),J2K,JPEG-LS, RLE and deflated.
VTK/Python bindings to the GDCM DICOM library.
There are three methods to install python-vtkgdcm
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-vtkgdcm 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-vtkgdcm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-vtkgdcm
Install python-vtkgdcm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-vtkgdcm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-vtkgdcm
Install python-vtkgdcm 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-vtkgdcm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-vtkgdcm
How To Uninstall python-vtkgdcm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-vtkgdcm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-vtkgdcm
Uninstall python-vtkgdcm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-vtkgdcm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-vtkgdcm
Remove python-vtkgdcm Configurations and Data
To remove python-vtkgdcm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-vtkgdcm
Remove python-vtkgdcm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-vtkgdcm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-vtkgdcm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vtkgdcm
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.