Slicer3:Debian

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.

slicer3

Debian "squeeze"

Debian "squeeze" contains a "3D Slicer 3.4" package.

The next major Debian release "wheezy" will contain a "3D Slicer 3.6" package.

Cloud computing

3D Slicer 3.4
ami-6ca05805  (~ $0.02 per hour)

Example session:

AMI=mi-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

slicer3

Dependencies

Media:slicer_rdep_squeeze.png

Ubuntu

The Ubuntu distribution will also contain a slicer package in their universe repository [1]. This package is probably based on the slicer package taken from Debian "unstable".

Thanks!

These packages were the result of a lot of work by Dominique Belhachemi.