You need to install the freeglut package that comes with Centos 5. Try as root doing 'yum install freeglut'

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Ellison wrote:

Hi My Name is Andy Ellison and im Using (attempting) Freesurfer at Boston University. Upon my first attempt to install freesurfer on Centos 5 (i understand that the release was specific for Centos4 but unsure if it would have an affect) i received this error message

/usr/local/freesurfer/bin/tkmedit.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I read online another person had this problem so I commented out a small line of code in the FreeSurferEnv.csh

source ${FSL_DIR}/etc/fslconf/fsl.csh

This had no effect so I am emailing you in hopes you know what i can do. This is the second time i had this issue, I had earlier thought it was a problem with my installation of FSL, but upon a total uninstall of centos5 and reinstall it still is uncooperative, any help would be really appreciated, thanks

Andy