dctopnm command not found

Introduction

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

dctopnm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dctopnm: command not found

Solutions to dctopnm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dctopnm is provided by dicom3tools package.

dicom3tools is:

Command line utilities for creating, modifying, dumping and validating files of DICOM attributes. Support conversion of some proprietary medical image formats to DICOM. Can handle older ACR/NEMA format data, and some proprietary versions of that such as SPI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dicom3tools

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

You can also use apt command to install dicom3tools.

sudo apt -y install dicom3tools

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

sudo aptitude install dicom3tools

Summary

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