Yes, we originally got the fslview distribution from NeuroDebian, but it is broken.
When we realized that, we tried to go from the source available on the FSL site, but that has the problems that we reported and that you were aware of. 
Should I write to NeuroDebian?

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From: David Flitney [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [FSL] strange behavior in fslview on Ubuntu systems

Stafano,

FSLview v4.x on Ubuntu uses Qwt5 and Qt4.

Sadly the Qt4 version will not run properly on all platforms, consequently we have only distributed FSLview 4 on Ubuntu. It sounds to me like you have the FSLview 3.x sources (Qt3/Qwt4) which will not compile on Ubuntu. Given that the correct FSLview should come from NeuroDeb I guess you should also be getting the source deb from there?

On 11 Feb 2013, at 22:23, "Marenco, Stefano (NIH/NIMH) [E]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We noticed the following aberrant behavior in fslview when run on Ubuntu 12.04.1  systems (Neurodebian distribution).
> Here is the context: we load the JHU-ICBM-tracts-prob-1mm image.
> Then we load the MNI152_T1_1mm_brain image, which we then move to the bottom of the pile.
> When we try to move around the image, the tracts display in very odd ways. For example, we move in the coronal slices and we see the axial view changing the volume number of the tract image, resulting in a tract present on the left of the image in the coronal image and on the right on the axial. This is a pretty crazy behavior for an image display program.

Using FSLview 4.x, on all platforms I have access to (incl. Ubuntu), I have been unable to duplicate the behaviour described. Can you confirm that the bug is stable and repeatable? Perhaps, if you're willing, we could use a Skype and/or TeamViewer session to look at it?

> This did not occur for version 3.8.1 of fslview running on redhat 5.8.
>  
> Our system administrator tried the following:
> I can get 70% of fslview to compile but it breaks when it tries to use 
> a widget library called qwt
>  
> Ubuntu comes with both QWT5 and QWT6
>  
> but fslview was built using QWT 4.2.0.  The last version of this library is dated 2004.  I got the source distribution for QWT 4.2.0 but it will not build under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  It is just too old.
>  
> I spent a lot of time trying to build fslview from source for our Ubuntu systems but it will not build. 
>  
> Please let us know how to proceed.
>  
> Thanks, Stefano Marenco

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