Hi Lilla,

Thank you for your reply. I have boost installed, yet it is not the version required (v. 1.49). Although, even after installing an older version such as the 1.41 it is not straightforward to use this libboost with freesurfer. The doc from libboost is not easy to understand and even if done correctly you will not be able to use this installation as there is no libboost_program_options.so.5. Nevertheless, I got it to work so here goes the solution that worked for me.

Download libboost v. 1.41 and untar cd libboost_folder mkdir libraries ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=./libraries ./bjam install cd libraries/lib ln -s libboost_program_options.so.1.41.0 libboost_program_options.so.5 export

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.../boost_temp/boost_1_41_0/libraries/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Cheers, Andre Santos Ribeiro

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Lilla Zollei lzollei@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote:

Hi Andre,

I posted the below on Monday on the list:

The boost library is installed by default on CentOS platforms. If a user gets the libboost error then they are using a different platform which doesn't have boost installed by default. On RedHat systems libboost can be installed by typing the follwing command: $>yum install boost-devel"

The version of libboost that we use for our latest release is 1.41.

I hope that helps,

--Lilla

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, André Ribeiro wrote:

Dear freesurfer experts,

...

when running the createMorph function an error of shared libraries occur.

createMorph: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_program_options.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I searched for such shared library and although I have a different version I do not have this specific.

/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.49.0_orig /usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.a /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.49.0 /usr/lib/libboost_program_options.a

Updating the libboost did not worked and I couldn’t find any useful suggestion on the web.

I am running freesurfer under Ubuntu 13.04 I would appreciate any suggestion.

Cheers, Andre Santos Ribeiro

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