sightviewer command not found

Introduction

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

sightviewer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sightviewer: command not found

Solutions to sightviewer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sightviewer is provided by sightviewer package.

sightviewer is:

Medical image viewer featuring negatoscope, multi-planar reconstruction, and volume rendering.

Many image formats are handled such as DICOM, mhd, inr.gz, vtk, vti,… Segmentations meshes can also be imported from DICOM and vtk formats, and visualized in mixed rendering with images.

Tools are provided to measure distances of structures in the image and to place landmarks.

Last, SightViewer can also connect directly to a PACS, and then request, download or upload DICOM files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sightviewer

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

You can also use apt command to install sightviewer.

sudo apt -y install sightviewer

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

sudo aptitude install sightviewer

Summary

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