Hello John,

The mri_make_bem_surfaces command had been put in the attic and removed from all platform builds, but was added back for some OS’s used by a different imaging project back in 2020. It was not restored for CentOS6 and Ubuntu18 builds. I don’t think that command has been updated/supported since ~2001. We have discontinued CentOS6 builds and I suspect Ubuntu18 will be next since Ubuntu18 LTS (long term stable release) expires in Q1 2023 since both Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 22 now have LTS releases.

- R.

On Aug 17, 2022, at 15:07, Jon Houck <jon.houck@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

It looks like the ubuntu 18 download for freesurfer 7.3.2 (freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_x86_64-7.3.2-20220804-6354275) doesn't have the binary for mri_make_bem_surfaces. The file in this version is a bash script that prints the message "error: mri_make_bem_surfaces has been removed from this version of freesurfer. For further information, please post to the help list at freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu".

The file isn't listed in 'attic' anymore on github, but for ubuntu 18 seems to be handled as if it was. The tarballs for the other 4 linux distributions are fine and only the ubuntu 18 tarball and .deb have this issue. Is this intentional? I didn't see anything in the release notes -- apologies if I missed something there..

Thanks

Jon Houck
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