pydicom command not found

Introduction

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

pydicom: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pydicom: command not found

Solutions to pydicom: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pydicom is provided by python3-pydicom package.

python3-pydicom is:

pydicom is a pure Python module for parsing DICOM files. DICOM is a standard (http://medical.nema.org) for communicating medical images and related information such as reports and radiotherapy objects.

pydicom makes it easy to read DICOM files into natural pythonic structures for easy manipulation. Modified datasets can be written again to DICOM format files.

This package installs the module for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pydicom

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pydicom

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pydicom

Summary

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