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1 Installing and loading

The Dicom toolkit must be installed and then loaded to be used.

It can be installed in GNU Octave directly from octave-forge, or can be installed in an off-line mode via a downloaded tarball.

The toolkit has a dependency on the GDCM library (https://http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/), so it must be installed in order to successfully install the Dicom toolkit.

For fedora: yum install gdcm-devel

For ubuntu: apt install libgdcm2-dev

The toolkit must be then be loaded once per each GNU Octave session in order to use its functionality.

1.1 Online Direct install

With an internet connection available, the Dicom package can be installed from octave-forge using the following command within GNU Octave: 

pkg install -forge dicom

The latest released version of the toolkit will be downloaded and installed.

1.2 Off-line install

With the Dicom toolkit package already downloaded, and in the current directory when running GNU Octave, the package can be installed using the following command within GNU Octave: 

pkg install dicom-0.6.0.tar.gz

1.3 Loading

Regardless of the method of installing the Dicom toolkit, in order to use its functions, the toolkit must be loaded using the pkg load command: 

pkg load dicom

The toolkit must be loaded on each GNU Octave session.

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