Thanks a lot Nick.

It worked like a charm:

"recon-all -s struct_FS finished without error at Thu Aug 23 03:52:39 PDT 2012
done"

For other users whose OS automatically unzips the .gz, 

the command to type is:

sudo tar xvf freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar

Thanks!

Fidel


On 20-Aug-12, at 8:48 AM, Nick Schmansky wrote:

Fidel,

I don't know why those files are missing from the Tiger ppc distribution,
but i confirmed that indeed they are.  Here is a tarball of the
distribution which contains everything:

ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.1.0/freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gz

save it to your /Applications directory, and then from the Terminal type:

cd /Applications
sudo tar zxvf freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gz

you dont need to remove your existing install.

Nick



Hi,

I'm reposting this, hoping Nick has returned and can provide some
guidance.

Thanks,

Fidel

On 1-Aug-12, at 8:16 AM, Douglas N Greve wrote:

This is strange, it must be something that is specific to the PPC
Mac distribution. Nick is going to have to deal with this, but he
won't be back until Mon. Can you wait that long?
doug

On 07/31/2012 06:01 PM, Fidel Vila wrote:
And there is nothing in /Applications/freesurfer/bin?

There are 357 items in /Applications/freesurfer/bin

Are there any files in the other directories?

Indeed, from /Application/freesurfer/average (50 items in here) to /
Applications/freesurfer/trctrain (35 items) as well as 'LICENSE'
file, 'README' file, etc. Not to forget my user license file
(i.e. .license)

The executable files missing in /Applications/freesurfer/bin seem
to be:

talairach_avi
;mri_watershed
; ;mri_segment
;mri_tessellate
;mri_concatenate_lta ;mri_normalize_tp2 ;mris_smooth ;mris_inflate
;mris_curvature
;mris_sphere
;mris_fix_topology
;mris_topo_fixer
;mris_ca_label
;mris_euler_number
;mris_make_surfaces
;mris_register
;mris_volmask
 ;mris_anatomical_stats
;mrisp_paint
;mris_curvature_stats
;mris_calc ;mri_robust_register ;mri_robust_template ;mri_segstats

Also, running grep -f /CommandsNotFound.txt (file listing the
commands listed above) /Files_in_Bin.txt (list of 357 items in /
Applications/freesurfer/bin folder) retrieves no matching pattern.

The list of commands above matches the list of warning errors (i.e.
command not found) when I run recon-all.

Do you have permission to install it in that location?

I do.

Could this be related to compillation of files for the May 2011
5.1. stable release for ppc?

Appreciate your advice and support as I understand ppc machines
might not be one of the highest priorities...

Regards,

Fidel


On 31-Jul-12, at 1:12 PM, Douglas N Greve wrote:

And there is nothing in /Applications/freesurfer/bin? Are there
any files in the other directories? Do you have permission to
install it in that location? If nothing is in the bin dir, then
there is no need to try recon-all, it will always fail.
doug



On 07/31/2012 04:05 PM, Fidel Vila wrote:
Hi Doug,

I re-installed freesurfer, and I still get the same error message
(terminal output attached); bin files are still missing from bin
folder.

Shall I report this as a bug?

Regards,

Fidel




On 25-Jul-12, at 8:22 PM, Douglas Greve wrote:

did you set up your environment so that your path environment
variable has all the proper paths in it? Look at the wiki for
instructions.
doug

On 7/25/12 7:57 PM, Fidel Vila wrote:
Hi Freesurfer experts,

I recently installed FS (PowerPC architecture version available
on FS website) on a Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I get the attached
output error when running recon-all.

Advice on how to troubleshoot this would be appreciate.

Thanks,

Fidel



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