Slicer3:Debian
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Intro
A Debian package for slicer has been created to make it easier to install "3D Slicer" on Debian machines. This means users can simply do:
sudo apt-get install slicer
and the slicer3 command will be available in their path and system menus. All slicer executables and libraries will be installed along with dependencies.
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Debian "squeeze"
Debian "squeeze" contains a "3D Slicer 3.4" package.
Debian "wheezy"
The next major Debian release "wheezy" will contain all tools to compile a local "3D Slicer 4.x" version.
sudo aptitude install libxext-dev libxrender-dev make g++ # download the 'supported' Qt version [1] wget ftp://ftp.qt-project.org/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz mkdir qt-everywhere-opensource-build-4.7.4 tar xvfz qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4 ./configure -prefix ../qt-everywhere-opensource-build-4.7.4 -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -no-qt3support -webkit -nomake examples -nomake demos make -j8 make install
sudo aptitude update #cmake 2.8.6 required because of libarchive sudo aptitude install git-svn gitk subversion git gcc g++ make cmake-curses-gui libglu1-mesa-dev #libqt4-dev git clone https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git cd Slicer git svn init http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer4/trunk git update-ref refs/remotes/git-svn refs/remotes/origin/master git checkout master git svn rebase mkdir ../Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug cd ../Slicer4-SuperBuild-Debug #cmake ../Slicer #cmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=~/qt-everywhere-opensource-build-4.7.4/bin/qmake -DITK_VERSION_MAJOR:STRING=4 -DSlicer_USE_GIT_PROTOCOL:BOOL=OFF ../Slicer cmake -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=~/qt-everywhere-opensource-build-4.7.4/bin/qmake ../Slicer make -j8
# runtime dependency: sudo aptitude install python-tk
Cloud computing
The EBS AMI ami-6ca05805 contains a ready to use 3D Slicer 3.4 installation. The image can be started as a t1.micro instance (~ $0.02 per hour).
Example session:
AMI=ami-6ca05805 ec2-describe-images $AMI ec2-run-instances -t t1.micro $AMI -n1 -k mykey ec2-describe-instances host=ec2-174-129-170-61.compute-1.amazonaws.com ssh -i id_rsa-mykey -X ubuntu@${host}
Use Slicer's command line tools
/usr/lib/Slicer3/Plugins/AffineRegistration --help
or start Slicer's GUI
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Dependencies
Ubuntu
The Ubuntu distribution will also contain a slicer package in their universe repository [2]. This package is probably based on the slicer package taken from Debian "unstable".
"The MOTU team cares for the packages in universe and multiverse (which are comprised mostly of packages from the Debian archive) on a best-effort basis, as there are a large number of packages relative to the resources of the team. Therefore, a vast majority of these packages are used unchanged from Debian, rebuilt in an Ubuntu build environment, and do not receive personal attention from an Ubuntu developer." [3]
Thanks!
These packages were the result of a lot of work by Dominique Belhachemi.