[Freesurfer] .licence problem

Hi,

I am setting up freesurfer on a pc laptop for a colleague. I have installed Oracle VM virtual box, Neurodebian, and FreeSurfer.

Freesurfer is now running, but when I try doing recon-all I get the error message:

ERROR: FreeSurfer license file /usr/local/freesurfer/.license not found. If you are outside the NMR-Martinos Center, go to http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu to get a valid license file (it's free). If you are inside the NMR-Martinos Center, make sure to source the standard environment.

This is very strange because the .licence file is actually in the freesurfer directory.

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Any tips?

Thanks in advance! Eva