Dear Bhavani,
I hope I did not engender unneccesary confusion! The neurodebian spm8 package
currently requires Matlab: unfortunately, it won't run under octave, yet.
But I think that the neurodebian developers are planning a platform independent
release at some point...
Best,
Marco
On 11/30/2010 03:53 PM, Bhavani shankara wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried installing the new spm-8 using the neurodebian (in terminal -
> command line ), but during the installation it is asking to show the
> path to installed matlab, but as i dont have the Linux-Matlab. Also
> instead i tried giving the pathway of installed octave but it is not
> taking but installed and not opening with Octave. Is their any way to
> tell the spm8 during installation, i am using Octave instead of Matlab.
>
>
> Thanks for providing SPM in open source compatible softwares ..
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM, marco tettamanti
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> You may want to have a look at:
>
> http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/spm8-common.html
>
> and particularly the following note: "This software is written for
> matlab, but initial tests indicate that some (significant) portion
> of it might also work with octave. More tests are pending..."
>
> I believe this is of quite broad interest, so hopefully some
> progress will soon be made...
>
> Marco
>
> p.s. I guess it is worth advertising
> http://neuro.debian.net/index.html to the SPM community, anyway, as
> this represents a really commendable effort!
>
>
> On 11/30/2010 02:33 PM, Stephen J. Fromm wrote:
>
> I've never heard of such a thing.
>
> From http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM/Which_version_of_MATLAB :
> "Scilab and Octave are free clones of MATLAB, but SPM does not
> currently run on either. Porting SPM to these environments
> should be feasible but would require an important investment."
>
> It would be extremely useful (save money), but alas doesn't seem
> to be true.
>
>
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