dcmpsmk command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

dcmpsmk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dcmpsmk: command not found

Solutions to dcmpsmk: command not found

How To Fix dcmpsmk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dcmpsmk is provided by dcmtk package.

dcmtk is:

DCMTK includes a collection of libraries and applications for examining, constructing and converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, sending and receiving images over a network connection, as well as demonstrative image storage and worklist servers.

This package contains the DCMTK utility applications.

Note: This version was compiled with libssl support.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install dcmtk

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install dcmtk.

sudo apt -y install dcmtk

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install dcmtk

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dcmpsmk command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.