How To Install heudiconv on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install heudiconv
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is heudiconv
heudiconv is:
This is a flexible dicom converter for organizing brain imaging data into structured directory layouts. It allows for flexible directory layouts and naming schemes through customizable heuristics implementations. It only converts the necessary dicoms, not everything in a directory. It tracks the provenance of the conversion from dicom to nifti in w3c prov format.
There are three methods to install heudiconv
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install heudiconv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install heudiconv
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install heudiconv
Install heudiconv Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install heudiconv
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install heudiconv
Install heudiconv 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 heudiconv
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install heudiconv
How To Uninstall heudiconv on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the heudiconv
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove heudiconv
Uninstall heudiconv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall heudiconv
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove heudiconv
Remove heudiconv Configurations and Data
To remove heudiconv
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge heudiconv
Remove heudiconv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove heudiconv
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heudiconv
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install heudiconv
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.