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, > > 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/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.gz). > > > 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 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 > > Thanks so much, > > > Max Swartz > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine > at > http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in > error > but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and > properly > dispose of the e-mail. _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list [email protected] https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
