# Install package itk 5

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/install-package-itk-5/6591>\
**Category:** Engineering\
**Tags:** itk, cpp\
**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/install-package-itk-5/6591 "2024-04-23T21:35:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_M](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/michael_m/32/3622_2.png) [@Michael\_M](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Michael_M)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/install-package-itk-5/6591/1 "2024-04-23T21:35:23Z")

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Hello,

I can install itk 5 via the longer process of cloning the repository and building it from scratch using cmake. However, i wanted to shorten and simplify the process by just downloading the package as described here: [Download ITK - ITK's documentation](https://docs.itk.org/en/latest/download.html#)

It states to run “sudo apt-get install libinsighttoolkit5-dev”

This doesn’t work with an error on the command line in Ubuntu 22 stating: “unable to locate package: libinsighttoolkit5-dev”

However, sudo apt-get install libinsighttoolkit **4** -dev works.

Is ITK 5 not available as a package?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/install-package-itk-5/6591/2 "2024-04-24T20:06:05Z")

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Hello @Michael_M ,

The fine folks at the [debian-med mailing list](https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/) create ITK packages, they may know more.