# Install gdcm with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper Grassroots DICOM library and utilities for medical files. Version 3.2.7 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gdcm ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gdcm ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install gdcm ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: science/gdcm/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add gdcm ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gdcm from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install gdcm-doc ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: gdcm-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install gdcm ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gdcm from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#gdcm ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gd/gdcm/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S gdcm ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: gdcm from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install gdcm ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: gdcm from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gdcm - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.2.7 - **Source summary:** Grassroots DICOM library and utilities for medical files - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-3-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-25T13:37:42+02:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - gdcmanon (cli) - gdcmclean (cli) - gdcmconv (cli) - gdcmdiff (cli) - gdcmdump (cli) - gdcmgendir (cli) - gdcmimg (cli) - gdcminfo (cli) - gdcmpap3 (cli) - gdcmraw (cli) - gdcmscanner (cli) - gdcmscu (cli) - gdcmtar (cli) - gdcmxml (cli) - gdcmanon (alias) - gdcmclean (alias) - gdcmconv (alias) - gdcmdiff (alias) - gdcmdump (alias) - gdcmgendir (alias) - gdcmimg (alias) - gdcminfo (alias) - gdcmpap3 (alias) - gdcmraw (alias) - gdcmscanner (alias) - gdcmscu (alias) - gdcmtar (alias) - gdcmxml (alias) ## Dependencies - charls - json-c - openjpeg - openssl@3 ## Build dependencies - cmake - ninja - pkgconf - python@3.14 - swig ## Uses from macOS - expat - libxml2 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.2.7 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-25 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/malaterre/GDCM - Upstream latest detected: v3.2.7 (current) ## Project history and usage GDCM, Grassroots DICOM, is a cross-platform C++ implementation and utility suite for DICOM medical imaging files. ### Project history The official SourceForge project describes Grassroots DiCoM as a C++ library for DICOM medical files with bindings for Python, C#, Java, PHP, and Perl. The project README says the official Git repository is hosted on SourceForge and describes the GitHub repository as a source mirror. It also emphasizes CMake-based builds and nightly testing through the GDCM dashboard. ### Adoption history GDCM's adoption is centered on medical-imaging workflows that need portable DICOM parsing, conversion, anonymization, de-identification, and network operations outside a full clinical application. The SourceForge page lists support for common medical-image transfer syntaxes and a VTK bridge, placing GDCM in scientific, imaging, and visualization package stacks. ### How it is used The package ships utilities such as gdcmdump, gdcmconv, gdcminfo, gdcmanon, gdcmscanner, gdcmscu, and gdcmxml for inspecting, converting, anonymizing, scanning, networking, archiving, and XML-related DICOM work. The official project page lists support for RAW, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, RLE, deflated transfer syntax, SCU operations such as C-ECHO, C-FIND, C-STORE, and C-MOVE, and PS 3.15 de-identification and re-identification mechanisms. ### Why package nerds care GDCM is package-nerd significant because DICOM support is hard to package cleanly: it combines a native C++ library, command-line tools, language bindings, image codecs, medical metadata, and network protocol behavior. For scientific distributions, it is often the pragmatic DICOM brick under higher-level imaging and visualization workflows. ### Timeline - SourceForge era: GDCM is distributed as the Grassroots DICOM project with files, mailing lists, tickets, Git, and documentation hosted on SourceForge. - Modern source era: The README identifies SourceForge as the official Git repository and GitHub as a source-code copy. - Current project page: SourceForge lists active project updates and the cross-platform DICOM feature set. ### Related projects - GDCM is related to the DICOM standard and to VTK through its documented VTK bridge. - It overlaps with other medical-imaging and DICOM toolkits, but the official sources mainly position it by DICOM transfer syntax support, SCU operations, bindings, and command-line applications. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes library-like package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - library-like package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** gdcm - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - gdcm-doc - 3.0.24-5: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: gdcm-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM documentation | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libgdcm-dev - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgdcm-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM development libraries and headers | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libgdcm-java - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgdcm-java from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM Java bindings | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libgdcm-tools - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgdcm-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM tools and utilities | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libgdcm3.0t64 - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libgdcm3.0t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM runtime libraries | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libvtkgdcm-9.1t64 - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libvtkgdcm-9.1t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM VTK runtime libraries | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libvtkgdcm-dev - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libvtkgdcm-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM VTK development libraries and headers | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - libvtkgdcm-tools - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libvtkgdcm-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM VTK tools and utilities | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - python3-gdcm - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-gdcm from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM Python bindings | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Debian apt - python3-vtkgdcm - 3.0.24-5+b3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-vtkgdcm from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Grassroots DICOM VTK/Python bindings | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Nix - gdcm: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gd/gdcm/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - gdcm-doc - 3.0.22-2.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gdcm-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Grassroots DICOM documentation | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libgdcm-cil - 3.0.22-2.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgdcm-cil from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Grassroots DICOM CLI bindings | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libgdcm-dev - 3.0.22-2.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgdcm-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Grassroots DICOM development libraries and headers | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libgdcm-java - 3.0.22-2.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgdcm-java from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Grassroots DICOM Java bindings | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu apt - libgdcm-tools - 3.0.22-2.1ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libgdcm-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Grassroots DICOM tools and utilities | http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/ ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Media and graphics packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/media-graphics-tools/) - Matched media, image, audio, video, or graphics metadata. - [Scientific computing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/scientific-computing-tools/) - Matched scientific computing metadata. - [openjpeg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openjpeg/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ninja](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ninja/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [itk](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/itk/) - Popular package that depends on this formula. - [libdicom](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libdicom/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dicom, medical-imaging, science. - [dcm2niix](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dcm2niix/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dicom, medical-imaging, science. - [dcmtk](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dcmtk/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dicom, medical-imaging, science. - [btllib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/btllib/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, library, science. - [clhep](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/clhep/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, library, science. - [flann](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/flann/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, library, science. - [flexiblas](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/flexiblas/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, library, science. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gdcm.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gdcm.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph