nitool command not found

Introduction

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

nitool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nitool: command not found

Solutions to nitool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nitool is provided by python3-dcmstack package.

python3-dcmstack is:

DICOM to NIfTI conversion with the added ability to extract and summarize meta data from the source DICOMs. The meta data can be injected into a NIfTI header extension or written out as a JSON formatted text file.

This package provides the Python3 package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dcmstack

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-dcmstack.

sudo apt -y install python3-dcmstack

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

sudo aptitude install python3-dcmstack

Summary

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