This page documents how to download ITK. See our CONTRIBUTING guide for more information.
ITK release tarballs, including:
- Source code
- Regression test data
- Doxygen documentation
- ITK's Software Guide
- ITK's Examples
can be downloaded from ITK's GitHub Releases page.
ITK packages exist for many Linux distributions. For Debian and Ubuntu, they can be obtained running
$ sudo apt-get install libinsighttoolkit4-dev
This will give you the libraries and development headers.
For information on other ITK packages and packages for other distributions, see this blog post.
ITK Python wheels are available through the Python Package Index (PyPI).
To install the ITK Python wheel, use
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip
$ python -m pip install itk
Additionally, wheels for external modules may also be available through the Python Package Index (PyPI).
Check the ITKPythonPackage website for further information.
First, download and install Git.
Note that the software must be compiled from source using CMake and your favorite C++ compiler. The toolkit can be installed, but it is not necessary; it can be used directly from its build directory. See the ITK Software Guide for further information on configuring and building ITK.
Clone ITK using the commands
$ git clone https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
$ cd ITK
The latest stable release can be cloned into a local repositiory using
$ git clone -b release https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK ITKLatestRelease
where ITKLatestRelease
is the name of the local repository created.
Additionally, specific releases can be cloned using the tags, for example:
$ git clone -b v4.13.1 https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK ITK-4.13.1
where v4.13.1
corresponds to ITK 4.13.1, and the ITK-4.13.1
is the name
of the local repository created.
Users that have made no local changes and simply want to update a clone with the latest changes may run
$ git checkout master
$ git pull --rebase upstream master
Avoid making local changes unless you have read our developer instructions.
After cloning, your local repository will be configured to follow the upstream
master
branch by default. This means you will have access to cutting edge
features, but along with these may come cutting edge bugs 😬. One may
create a local branch to track the upstream release
branch instead, which
should guarantee only bug fixes to the functionality available in the latest
release:
$ git checkout --track -b release origin/release
This local branch will always follow the latest release
. Use the [#update]
instructions to update it.
Alternatively, one may checkout a specific release tag using
$ git checkout v4.13.1
Release tags never move. Repeat the command with a different tag to get a different release. One may list available tags using:
$ git tag