We are no longer supporting or releasing tar archives for the reasons explained in the previous email.

Various sites install freesurfer package(s) on central machine(s) for everyone to use/mount read only over the network in order to avoid installing and maintaining the same package on 100’s of machines. However, my understanding is tools like puppet, chef, yum-cron, etc. can if need be automate doing the actual package installs site wide across multiple machines.

- R.

On Apr 9, 2025, at 15:44, Billah, Tashrif <tbillah@bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:

I just checked that the only additional step you recommend is:

> apt-get install ./freesurfer_ubuntu22-7.4.1_amd64.deb

Sourcing the rest have remained the same. So why can you not also upload the tar ball?

-Tashrif
From: Billah, Tashrif
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 3:31 PM
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] nu_correct error: Can't locate Sys/Hostname.pm in @INC

We have always untarred up to 7.1.0 and used it successfully. This was the good thing about FreeSurfer that did not require a client side installation. I am the administrator and I can tell you that installation of this software via root is infeasible for 100 computers.

Given your comment about 7.4.1 tarball being not installer, we want to know--has the installation mechanism changed since 7.4.1?

Best,
Tashrif
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