How To Install minc-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install minc-tools on Kali Linux. minc-tools is MNI medical image format tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install minc-tools on Kali Linux.

What is minc-tools

minc-tools is:

This package contains tools to manipulate MINC files.

The Minc file format is a highly flexible medical image file format built on top of the NetCDF generalized data format. The format is simple, self-describing, extensible, portable and N-dimensional, with programming interfaces for both low-level data access and high-level volume manipulation. On top of the libraries is a suite of generic image-file manipulation tools. The format, libraries and tools are designed for use in a medical-imaging research environment: they are simple and powerful and make no attempt to provide a pretty interface to users.

There are three methods to install minc-tools on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install minc-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minc-tools

Install minc-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minc-tools

Install minc-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install minc-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minc-tools

How To Uninstall minc-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the minc-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove minc-tools

Uninstall minc-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall minc-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minc-tools

Remove minc-tools Configurations and Data

To remove minc-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge minc-tools

Remove minc-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minc-tools

Dependencies

minc-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install minc-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.