You seriously need to improve the installation help for non-linux experts.

I spent six hours trying to upgrade from 7.3.2 to 7.4.1. The first 40 minutes was going through your help pages and reading very carefully starting here:

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and here:

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and many other linked pages

Only to find that there are not actually any instructions on what to do.

All you needed to say was:

Find out what version of Linux you have with the command:

cat /etc/os-release

Download the appropriate file e.g. for Ubuntu 22 use the Deb installation file

freesurfer_ubuntu22-7.4.1_amd64.deb

Then, for Ubuntu, install with the command

sudo dpkg --install <filename>

That would have saved me 6 hours!

I don't know linux so I don't know these basic commands.

A big problem for me was that I didn't know what version of Ubuntu I had but I didn't know that I didn't know that and none of the installation tools I tried told me, they just gave me unintelligible errors.

I think that because you are all linux fluent you have blind spots about some of this basic stuff.

Michael McLaughlin,