I'd be very grateful for any help provided on this matter.

It has been close to three weeks since I started trying to compile freesurfer 

from its sources (CSV stable5) on 32bit ubuntu ver. 10.04.

I followed to the letter the recipe outlined in: 

To do so I found additional prerequisite sources in:

mni.srcbuild.June2015.tgz 12.0 MB 6/19/15, 8:51:00 PM

mni.srcbuild.README.txt 6.5 kB 2/25/09, 12:00:00 AM

tcltktixblt-8.4.6.tgz 11.4 MB 7/26/10, 12:00:00 AM

vtk-5.2.1.tar.gz 16.2 MB 2/26/10, 12:00:00 AM

vxl-1.13.0.zip 34.0 MB 2/26/10, 12:00:00 AM

and then (when I'd have almost given up) the "Hacks" in:

In addition, overcame the complex VTK structure of includes ...

Finally, to find I am still missing ITK, which is barely mentioned elesewhere.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I assume it is all about  

the National Library of Medicine's Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK).

Then which version of ITK goes with the rest of freesurfer (as described above)?