Install teem with Homebrew, apt, dnf, winget

Project links

• Homepage
• Repository
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• gprobe
• ilk
• miter
• mrender
• nrrdSanity
• overrgb
• puller
• tend
• unu
• vprobe

Project history

The SourceForge project was registered in July 2003, while the documentation copyright notices point back to University of Utah work from 2000 onward. The official site describes Teem as Gordon Kindlmann's research software and as a coordinated group of libraries for representing, processing, and visualizing scientific raster data.

Teem's site emphasizes its library family: Nrrd and the `unu` tool for N-dimensional raster operations, Gage for point measurements in volumes, Mite for volume rendering, and Ten for diffusion tensor fields. The release archive documents 1.x releases through 1.11.0 in 2012, while the download page notes a later move from Subversion to Git while preparing a version 2 release.

Adoption history

Teem was adopted in visualization and medical/scientific imaging contexts because it made simple command-line and file-stream operations available without forcing users to write C code for every data transformation. The official site says Teem became a component of larger research software projects, including SCIRun and 3D Slicer.

For package maintainers, Teem's adoption pattern is classic research infrastructure: a stable C codebase, many small executables, and libraries that other scientific packages can link against. It appears in package managers because downstream users need reproducible builds of `unu`, `tend`, `gprobe`, `mrender`, and the underlying headers and libraries.

How it is used

Typical usage involves command-line processing of N-dimensional raster data: resampling, cropping, slicing, projecting, making histograms, sanity-checking NRRD support, probing volumes, rendering, and working with tensor fields. The official build page emphasizes CMake as the best way to build Teem and produce binaries such as `unu` and the `Teem::Teem` package for other software.

Package users care because Teem packages surface a dense set of scientific utilities and development libraries from one install, avoiding manual builds of older research software and its optional compression/image dependencies.

Why package nerds care

Teem is package-nerd significant as a durable scientific-computing dependency with old-school Unix utility flavor. It is not fashionable infrastructure, but it is exactly the sort of specialized C toolkit that package managers preserve so research pipelines and visualization tools keep building.

Timeline

• 2000: Documentation copyright range begins for University of Utah Teem material.
• 2003: SourceForge project registered.
• 2005: Teem 1.8.0 and 1.9.0 releases documented; 1.9.0 added CMake support.
• 2008: Teem 1.10.0 released after three years of changes.
• 2012: Teem 1.11.0 released after four years of changes.
• 2025: Download page notes the switch from Subversion to Git while preparing a version 2 release.

Related projects

• Related projects include NRRD/NrrdIO, SCIRun, 3D Slicer, CMake, and other scientific visualization/image-processing stacks.

Sources

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/teem/
• https://teem.sourceforge.net/
• https://teem.sourceforge.net/build.html
• https://teem.sourceforge.net/download/index.html
• source_facts.executables