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Dear Sir,

(If I may come in)
“ …, then I recommend analyzing the package files to check all the dependencies 
are otherwise installed.”

What is that even mean?

Should it not the software have a configure or at least some proper environment 
options so that the settings can be picked up?  Otherwise, is it really fit for 
purpose for use on an HPC.
On a Cloud HPC, compute nodes are recreated each time they are used and that is 
why a module environment is used so that the software stack and/or the proper 
environment is properly loaded on top of an essentially “bare” machine.

I am looking forward to hear your comments

Kind regards


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Dr Roberto Scipioni
Senior HPC Specialist, Red Oak Managed Services

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From: fsbuild <[email protected]>
Sent: 17 June 2025 23:40
To: [email protected]
Cc: Roberto Scipioni <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Running Freesurfer on HPC (Almalinux OS, CycleCloud 
Compute nodes)


Currently the tcsh scripts assume a normal Linux .rpm or .deb package 
installation with a dependency on csh/tcsh being installed under /bin.    We do 
not assume spack, modules, etc. as may be used on clusters is going to 
configure software images such that it will conflict with that setup.  So the 
tcsh scripts will not run unless /bin/tcsh exists or maybe an alias would work.

If it’s not possible to do a normal install of the .deb or .rpm package to 
directly install all the system command and library dependencies, then I 
recommend analyzing the package files to check all the dependencies are 
otherwise installed.

"If: expression syntax errors" can be from executing the wrong shell.  In the 
case of trying to execute bash scripts, that error might be from running 
something like  “dash” on an Ubuntu flavor of Linux instead of the full-blown 
“bash" shell.

- R

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