Hans, Hello, from your comments, I think I spoke too soon in stating that your installation completed successfully. In a successful installation, the freesurfer/bin directory is placed in the path. Also, the MINC tools, which are included in the Mac OS X Tiger 'full' distribution, are installed (in the freesurfer/lib/mni directory) and setup automatically by the SetUpFreeSurfer.csh script (via the call to the FreeSurferEnv.csh script).
I suspect that the original install failed for reasons other than failing to write the /Library/Receipts directory (as I had earlier suspected). If you would like to try a re-install, then when it reaches the failure point, before closing the Installer application, click on the menu item 'Windows->Installer Log', and it should display the reason for installation failure. I am a bit curious as to the reason for the failure. I believe a bash version of SetUpFreeSurfer will be included in the next release. I appreciate your comments, and hope this install can be made to work for you. Nick On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:54 -0500, Hans Johnson wrote: > Nick, > > It does seem that the freesurfer files are installed on my Mac. > > Just some minor notes: > > 1) Bash/POSIX shell is not supported. > 'source /Users/Shared/freesurfer/SetUpFreeSurfer.csh' > 2) After changing to tcsh and resourcing > 'source /Users/Shared/freesurfer/SetUpFreeSurfer.csh' the PATH does not > include /Users/Shared/freesurfer/bin. > 3) During sourcing, warnings are presented about MINC_BIN_DIR and > MINC_LIB_DIR not being defined. If they are included with freesurfer, they > should be set automatically, if not, the warning message should indicate > where to get the package. > > I have not actually ran any data yet. > > Thank you for your help. > > Hans > > > > On 7/27/05 8:32 AM, "Nick Schmansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hans, > > > > Hello, Does your Mac OS X Tiger freesurfer installation work despite the > > reported error? I suspect that the problem is that it failed to write > > the 'receipt' to the /Library/Receipt directory, which requires > > Administrator privileges. > > > > This is the only part of the install (as currently implemented) that > > necessitates Admin privileges, but does not (currently) prompt for it. > > > > If, following the running of the command: > > 'source /Users/Shared/freesurfer/SetUpFreeSurfer.csh' > > you are able to run freesurfer commands (such as recon-all --help), then > > the installation proceeded correctly. BTW, 'recon-all --help' is the > > epicenter of freesurfer, and the best place to begin working with the > > tools (although an updated tutorial is soon to be made available). > > > > However, if you need to re-install, then at the point where the error is > > displayed, before closing that box, click on the upper-bar menu item > > 'Window->Installer Log', which will show the error in more detail. > > > > This Mac installation is a bit in-flux as we prepare for an official > > release in a couple weeks, so I apologize for the troubles. Linux > > distributions with decent install instructions will also be forthcoming > > (in the upcoming release). > > > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Nick Schmansky, Engineer email: nicks at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > > MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging > > 149 Thirteenth Street, Room 2301 Charlestown, MA 02129 USA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:52 -0500, Hans Johnson wrote: > >> Hello Freesurfer Developers, > >> > >> We are attempting to install freesurfer as one of our standard image > >> processing packages at the Mental Health Clinical Research Center Image > >> Processing Lab at The University of Iowa. Our environment consists of > >> Redhat EL3WS, Redhat EL4WS, and MacOSX 10.4 operating systems. > >> > >> I could only find a matching MacOSX version of the software. Will the > >> Redhat series of OS be supported? > >> > >> Additionally, I am attempting to install freesurfer on Mac OS X 10.4, but > >> after the installer spends several minutes installing, it reports "There > >> were errors installing the software" "Please try installing again". > >> > >> Your help and advise is greatly appreciated. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Hans J. Johnson, PhD > >> Director of Image Processing > >> The Department of Psychiatry, > >> The University of Iowa > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Freesurfer mailing list > >> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > >> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
