dicom3tools for Debian
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What are the dicom3tools ...

See: http://www.dclunie.com/dicom3tools.html

We only distribute the read-only command line executables, just as the official ones:

$ unzip dicom3tools_winexe_1.00.snapshot.20090716.zip
Archive:  dicom3tools_winexe_1.00.snapshot.20090716.zip
  inflating: andump.exe              
  inflating: dcdump.exe              
  inflating: dcentvfy.exe            
  inflating: dcfile.exe              
  inflating: dchist.exe              
  inflating: dciodvfy.exe            
  inflating: dckey.exe               
  inflating: dcsort.exe              
  inflating: dcsrdump.exe            
  inflating: dcstats.exe             
  inflating: dctable.exe             
  inflating: cygwin1.dll             

In order to use the command line tools that generate DICOM file, you need to compile
dicom3tools from source and set the UID root appropriately. See documentation
for more information.




Historical footnote:
At first the package was being distributed with tool that 
would generate DICOM with invalid root UID:
...
The package is setup so that default Root UID is 0.0.0.0. This means that DICOM
file created will be syntactically correct, but will be refused by standard DICOM
implementation as this is not allowed as valid Root UID. You should either only
use this package for validation, but not in a production site, where produced
DICOM files are supposed to be sent to the outside world.
...

But the main author objected that this would be extremely dangerous, as such it was decided to
only distribute the exact same binaries as the one for windows and MacOSx. Ref:

Debian package for dicom3tools:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dicom/browse_thread/thread/719f2662d40e5c63

 -- Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>  Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:39:39 +0200
