Freesurfer community,
For those who wish to install a 'development' release of Freesurfer on Linux RedHat 9, CentOS 4 or CentOS 4 x86_64 platforms, distribution files are now posted at:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/?M=D
On this distribution site, a README is available:
freesurfer-Linux-platform-dev20050905-full.README.txt
The new distributions include:
freesurfer-Linux-rh9-dev20050905-full.tar.gz
freesurfer-Linux-centos4-dev20050905-full.tar.gz
freesurfer-Linux-centos4_x86_64-dev20050905-full.tar.gz
The 'dev' release contains all the functionality of the upcoming 'stable' release, but has not been fully tested, particularly in regards to installation issues.
This 'dev' release is intended for those who wish to attempt an installation on their Linux platform, and are willing to give feedback on possible installation problems.
This 'dev' release contains most of the libraries that Freesurfer requires: the MINC toolkit, Tcl/Tk/Tix and BLT libraries, GSL and Qt, as well as sample MRI data.
The release may be installed in any directory.
A Mac OS X 'dev' build is not available just yet.
Please direct comments or questions to this mailing list.