Hi,
I just wanted to say thanks! Having FSL available as a *.deb is simply
beautiful. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is installing SGE
and FSL via apt-get, and having both work together without further
intervention (on a single quad-core machine). Well, speaking of
further interventions, even those didn't seem to work in my case, but
that's another story :-))
So, thanks again for your great work!
Best regards,
Cornelius
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Michael Hanke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear FSL users,
>
> a long-standing feature request has been the possibility to install
> multiple FSL major versions using Debian packages. With today's package
> update (4.1.6-2) this is now possible.
>
> Noteworthy changes:
>
> - The actual FSL suite is now provided by Debian packages with versioned
> names. The current release 4.1 comes in the 'fsl-4.1' package,
> subsequent releases will be in 'fsl-4.2' or 'fsl-5.0' packages.
>
> - To make co-installability possible, FSL binaries and configuration are
> now installed into version-dependent locations (/usr/lib/fsl/4.1 and
> /etc/fsl/4.1). Your old config settings will be automatically moved to
> the new location.
>
> - There will still be a 'fsl' package the will ensure smooth upgrades to
> the latest FSL release -- nothing special is needed to transition to
> the new versioned package -- just update your machines.
>
> - The new 'fsl' (unversioned) package offers another convenience
> feature. Symlinks for all FSL binaries are installed into /usr/bin and
> allow using the latest FSL version without having to configure your
> environment (e.g. by sourcing the config file) before. Obviously, this
> will only work for one (the latest) FSL version.
>
> - If you don't need/want/like the convenience functionality of the 'fsl'
> package, you can remove it after upgrading (only keeing the fsl-4.1
> package). If that is done, it is possible to install any older version
> of the FSL Debian packages in parallel to the latest version: e.g.
> fsl 3.3 or 4.0 in addition to 4.1.
>
> In this scenario you can decide which FSL version to use, by sourcing
> the appropriate config file:
>
> /etc/fsl/MAJOR_VERSION/fsl.sh: for FSL 4.1 and newer
> /etc/fsl/fsl.sh: for older releases
>
> As this is a quite signifcant change to the packaging some undiscovered
> problems might still be present in this initial release (although we are
> locally running this new version for some time now and it seems to
> work). If you experience any difficulties while upgrading or running
> analyses, please report them here.
>
> In case something is buggy, you can simply reinstall the previous
> package version (should still be available in /var/cache/apt/archives/
> on every machine). This new release (in comparision to version 4.1.6-1)
> only introduces changes to the packaging -- nothing has been changes
> regarding the actual FSL suite.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
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Department of Neurology
RWTH Aachen University
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52074 Aachen
Germany
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine
MR Physics - INM4
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