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!FreeSurfer for Linux is distributed in the form of a .tar.gz file, and is installed from the terminal command-line. The Mac OS X !FreeSurfer distribution is a .dmg file. After download, installation instructions for your specific platform can be found here: | !FreeSurfer for Linux is distributed in the form of a .tar.gz file, and is installed from the terminal command-line. The Mac OS X !FreeSurfer distribution is a .dmg file. After download, you can find installation instructions for your specific platform here: |
FreeSurfer Download
FreeSurfer for Linux is distributed in the form of a .tar.gz file, and is installed from the terminal command-line. The Mac OS X FreeSurfer distribution is a .dmg file. After download, you can find installation instructions for your specific platform here:
Important Note! When processing a group of subjects for your study, it is essential to process all your subjects with the same version of freesurfer, on the same OS platform and vendor, and for safety, even the same version of the OS. While we continue to work to ensure that results match across platforms (for instance the 32b and 64b CentOS 4 builds should produce identical results), there are none-the-less system-level libraries that are OS dependent. An exception to this rule is that you may view and edit files across any platform or version, and run some post-processing tools (outside the recon-all stream) if you check with us first (for instance you may run the longitudinal processing with newer versions).
FreeSurfer executables are available for the following platforms. Click on the filename to begin download, saving the file to your machine.
Stable 5.3 release
Please refer to the ReleaseNotes page for per-release information.
OS |
Platform |
Version |
Release Date |
Download |
Size |
Linux |
CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
4.2G |
|
Linux |
CentOS 4 x86_64 (64b) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
4.0G |
|
Linux |
CentOS 4 (32b) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
3.8G |
|
Mac |
Lion OX X 10.7 (64b Intel) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
3.5G |
|
Mac |
SnowLeopard OS X 10.6 (32b Intel) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
3.2G |
|
Virtualbox |
Xubuntu 12.04 |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 Aug 2013 |
9.0G |
Notes:
- uncompressed (installed) size is 8.3GB.
here is the md5sum data and sha1sum data for confirming tarball integrity after download.
See these instruction for loading the Freesurfer Virtualbox disk image
the root password for the Virtualbox release is freesurfer
- on Ubuntu, you might have to do this if qdec or freeview complain about libjpeg or libtiff:
cd /usr/lib (/usr/lib/i386 or /usr/lib/x86_64 on some Ubuntu distros) sudo ln -s libjpeg.so.8 libjpeg.so.62 sudo ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3
wget
If you are having problems downloading the installation from your browser, you could use the command-line 'wget' utility ('curl -O' on the Mac):
wget -c ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0/<filename>
where <filename> is a filename from the Download column in the table above. Note that the '-c' flag allows continuing a failed partial download.
Archive
Dev
Some nightly dev builds are here.
Notes
uname -m
If the output says 'x86_64', you have a 64-bit Intel-compatible machine.
Note that a license key file is necessary to run the FreeSurfer binaries (but is not necessary to download and install FreeSurfer).
Upon completion of the download, proceed to the installation section.
iSurf App
A brain segmentation tutorial application for the iPhone/iPad created by an external developer, making use of Freesurfer's segmentation, is available here.