Thanks for you reply, Rudolph.

We have a cluster environment in our university, and the best Ubuntu version to us for now is Ubuntu 12.04 (in a closest future we will update to a newer version, but not now...).

In the download page there is only FreeSurfer for CentOS, Mac and a Virtual Machine of Xubuntu, but not to Ubuntu. ( https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download )

I couldn't find the binaries to compile, too. I've looked at ( http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/ ).

To me the best choice is the binaries or the compiled source (not apt, yum, etc..) , because we put all applications in "/usr/local".


Could you help me to find one of these options to download?


Thanks again

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Bruno Bragança Mendes
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Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - Prédio 32 Térreo - Sala 120
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2015-10-01 18:40 GMT-03:00 Rudolph Pienaar <rudolph.nmr@gmail.com>:
Yes, FreeSurfer can be installed on Ubuntu without any issues. There is
also no functional difference between Ubuntu server and Ubuntu Desktop.

Do you have a compelling reason for wanting to use Ubuntu 12.04? It was
released in 2012 and is rather ancient in Ubuntu terms. The current
version of Ubuntu is 15.04 and in fact 15.10 is about to released in
three weeks.

I'd strongly recommend you update to a modern Ubuntu.

Having said that, certainly on Ubuntu 14.04 and above, once installed
you need to simply symlink some libraries since the versions FreeSurfer
has been compiled against are depreciated on Ubuntu 14.04 and later.

In a terminal, simply type (make sure that each command is on a single
line -- the email formatting might have split it in two):

For Trackvis and dtk

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.3

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmng.so.2.0.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmng.so.1

For FreeSurfer:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvnl_algo.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvnl_algo.so.1.14

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvnl.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvnl.so.1.14

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv3p_netlib.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv3p_netlib.so.1.14

HTH
-=R

On 10/1/15 15:58 , Bruno LAD wrote:
> Hi, could you help me please, because a couldn't find the answer for my
> question in the wiki.
>
> Can FreeSurfer be installed on ubuntu server 12.04? How can I do it, if
> it's possible?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
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> Bruno Bragança Mendes
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