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FreeSurfer Version 7 Release

This page describes the version 7.X.X releases of FreeSurfer. Below are the install packages and tar archives for download and install.

We recommend using the *.rpm packages to install freesurfer on CentOS/RedHat linux, the *.deb package for Ubuntu and and the *.pkg installer for MacOS. The installers can check system dependencies at install time, update your machine and allow different versions of freesurfer to be maintained. If you do not have root/sudo/admin privileges on the machine you want to install freesurfer on, then use the tar archives instead. Please however do not expand any tar archive such that the path to FREESURFER_HOME is /usr/local/freesurfer on linux or /Applications/freesurfer on MacOS. These paths are overwritten by the installer packages so manual installs there may not be preserved.

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FreeSurfer Release 7 System Requirements

Summary of Requirements:
Operating Systems:
Linux - we use/test CentOS6, CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18
MacOS - we use/test on macOS 10.12 - 10.15, 11.2 (Intel only)
Processor Speed: 2.8GHz or higher
RAM: 8GB for recon, 16GB suggested for viewing graphics
Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers
Size of installed image: 10GB
Typical size of a processed subject: 300MB
Other requirements: Matlab (only needed to run FS-FAST, the fMRI analysis stream)

Linux install and setup: here.

Mac install and setup: here.

Ubuntu 18.04 VM disk image (.vdi) with the 7.1.0 Release: A VirtualBox Ubuntu image to run on Windows, the Mac and/or other Linux OS flavors VM_setup. Can be used to run the freesurfer tutorial commands.

Run freeview with Windows 10 Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): here.

Note: version 7.0.0 has been recalled (see release notes). Please do not use 7.0.0. The links below are for more recent releases.

7.2.0 release

7.1.1 release

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, 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).