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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 |
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 |
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. Uncompressed (installed) size is 8.3GB. After download, you can find installation instructions for your specific platform here:
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).
Important Note for Mac OS X users: Mac OS X platform require the installation of XQuartz for freesurfer to work properly.
Pre-Yosemite versions of OSX (<= 10.9) require XQuartz 2.7.5.
Post-Yosemite versions of OSX (>= 10.10) require XQuartz 2.7.6 (or higher).
Freesurfer 5.3 stable 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 OS X 10.7 and higher (64bit Intel) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
3.5G |
|
Mac |
SnowLeopard OS X 10.6 (32bit Intel) |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 May 2013 |
3.2G |
|
Virtualbox |
Xubuntu 12.04 |
stable v5.3.0 |
15 Aug 2013 |
9.0G |
FAQ:
Virtualbox installation instructions can be found here.
the root password for the Virtualbox release is freesurfer
here is the md5sum data and sha1sum data for confirming tarball integrity after download.
- on Ubuntu, you might have to do this if qdec or freeview complain about libjpeg:
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62
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.
Development Version
To install the Development version of FreeSurfer, download the appropriate dev build. Some nightly dev builds are here.
Archive
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.