Usually what I do is create a sym link called "current" that I point to the newest version of Freesurfer. e.g.
cd /usr/local/freesurfer
ln -s $PWD/freesurfer-5.1.0 current

So then in my .bashrc file I set
FREESURFER_HOME='/usr/local/freesurfer/current'

Obviously you can change this if you wanted to use an older version.

Chris

On 02/21/2013 08:43 PM, Joshua Lee wrote:
Thanks.
Best,
-
Josh


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Shantanu Ghosh <shantanu@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Or you may have multiple freesurfer versions within the freesurfer
director, something like
/freesurfer/5.0, /freesurfer/5.1, /freesurfer/5.2b, /freesurfer/5.2 etc.
and then
export FREESURFER_HOME=<freesurfer_installation_directory>/freesurfer/5.1 etc
Hth, S.


On Thu, February 21, 2013 12:59 pm, Shantanu Ghosh wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> you can modify the SetUpFreeSurfer.sh to source the correct version.
> Hth, Shantanu
>
> On Thu, February 21, 2013 12:55 pm, Joshua Lee wrote:
>> If I want to install the new Freesurfer version but retain the older
>> Freesurfer install as well, what issues might I face?
>> Is it simply sourcing the usual setup scripts?
>>
>> export FREESURFER_HOME=<freesurfer_installation_directory>/freesurfer
>> source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh
>>
>> -
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