Thanks!

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Z K zkaufman@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

Max,

All of Sebastian's answers below are accurate. Unfortunately their are no no immediate plans to build a PowerPC compatible version of freesurfer. You choice is to either use a different Mac with an intel chip or download freesurfer v5.1 which is PowerPC compatible from this link:

ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.**edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.1.0/** freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-**stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gzftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.1.0/freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gz

-Zeke

On 05/24/2013 10:04 AM, Sebastian Moeller wrote:

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Hi Max,

not speaking for the fressurfer developers, just as a user like yourself...

On May 24, 2013, at 00:58 , Swartz, Max wrote:

Hello,

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I am working as a research assistant for the summer with the University of Cincinnati's Psychiatry department in the Division of Bipolar Disorders Research under Cal Adler and Melissa DelBello. We are looking to start utilizing FreeSurfer; however, I am getting some error messages when trying to perform most of the tasks on the "Testing your FreeSurfer installation" page in the wiki ( https://surfer.nmr.mgh.**harvard.edu/fswiki/** TestingFreeSurferhttps://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/TestingFreeSurfer).

The most common of the error messages I am receiving is "Exec format error. Binary file not executable."

The Mac I am trying to run FreeSurfer on has a dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 processor and 4 GB DDR SDRAM, and is running Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger).

    Ah, unfortunatelly all modern fressufer macosx versions are for

intel x86 processors only, and will not work on powerPCs at all. So either the free surfer developers can compile a powerPC version of 5.3 for you, or you get a newer x86 based computer. (Freesurfer will for great on x86 linux machines and on x86 macosx machines) It seems free surfer 5.1 was the last version for powerPCs (ftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.** edu/pub/dist/freesurfer//5.1.**0/freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-** stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gzftp://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer//5.1.0/freesurfer-Darwin-tiger-ppc-stable-pub-v5.1.0.tar.gz ).

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I have been trying to use FreeSurfer v5.3.0 for SnowLeopard OS X 10.6 (32b Intel). Should this version compatible with my computer?

As hinted at above, this will not work on your G5. Either use the old version from the ftp link above or switch to a x86 linux or macosx based computer.

We are thinking that our error messages are the result of either

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operating system incompatibility or not having all of the necessary privileges on our account (which can be fixed through IT).

Any insight you can provide regarding the compatibility of FreeSurfer v5.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger systems would be incredibly helpful.

    Currently not supported, but maybe the friendly and competent

free surfer developers might be able to compile a version of 5.3?

best regards Sebastian

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Thanks so much,

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