its possible to have different versions installed, just install it in
another directory.

qdec will not change any of the existing data processed with another
version.

n.



On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 14:05 -0600, Dalwani, Manish wrote:
> Thanks Nick, would that affect any of the files (or work) we have done
> on Freesurfer version 4.5? Is there a way to use both seperately on
> the same machine?
>
> Best,
> Manish
>
>
> On 9/27/11 12:18 PM, "Nick Schmansky" <nicks@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>         the easiest option is to download v5.1 and use the qdec in
>         it.  it will
>         include the necessary libs that qdec is built against.
>        
>         n.
>        
>         On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 11:13 -0600, Dalwani, Manish wrote:
>         > Hello Freesurfer’s,
>         >
>         > I posted this last week. Does someone have any insights?
>         Kindly
>         > advise!
>         >
>         > Manish
>         > ------ Forwarded Message
>         > From: <Dalwani>, Manish Dalwani
>         <manish.dalwani@ucdenver.edu>
>         > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:25:42 -0600
>         > To: <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>         > Conversation: QDEC analyses
>         > Subject: QDEC analyses
>         >
>         > Hello Freesurfer’s
>         >
>         > I want to set up  (thanks to Nick’s advice) a model with 2
>         covariates
>         > and one nuisance variable in QDEC. I am using the Freesurfer
>         Version
>         > 4.5 but the QDEC version I am running is 1.2. I did not see
>         any option
>         > for nuisance variables in it? I therefore went to this link
>         > ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/misc/
>         and
>         > downloaded the qdec.bin and mri_glmfit into
>         > the /usr/local/freesurfer/bin directory after backing up the
>         > originals.
>         >
>         > I gave permissions to the user and then tried running qdec
>         and I get
>         > this error:
>         > qdec.bin: error while loading shared libraries:
>         libvtkverdict.so.5.6:
>         > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>         >
>         > Did I download the wrong file? (I downloaded from the
>         > linux_centos4_x86_64)
>         >
>         > Thanks for any help!
>         >
>         > Manish
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