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Dear Eric

Having tried to install FSL on the fsl_vm5  (and failing) I found more success in installing it in Ubuntu.  There is already pre-configured packages available for fsl for Ubuntu or Debian (and this was much easier as it was a simple apt-get install fsl once I followed the instructions on the fsl site). 

 The respository is at http://neuro.debian.net/ and they also provide a virtual machine as well.

I would recommend ubuntu as it gives you sudo access (which will allow you to install fsl) and it is easy to install on either a virtual machine or dual booting.

Hope this helps



On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Erik Valenti <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I have already installed the VMPlayer. Since posting the question I have gone back to the FSL website and downloaded the through the VMPlayer and am still attempting to get the FSL installed. I downloaded the fsl-4.1.8-centos5_64.tar.gz zip folder onto my VMWare desktop. I then extracted the files into a folder entitled fsl_vm5_64 (still on the desktop). I also made sure that the fsl_installer.sh file was on the desktop too. I then proceeded to install the fsl installer by inputting [fsl@localhost Desktop]$ bash fsl_installer.sh. The following is the message I recieved. The parenthetical remarks are the inputs I put into the command prompt.


Looking for FSL tarball in the current directory...
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No FSL tarball specified, assuming you want me to install
/home/fsl/Desktop/fsl-4.1.8-centos5_64.tar.gz
from the current directory.
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Where would you like to install FSL to? [/usr/local]         (pressed enter)
touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/.fsl-test': Permission denied
Will require Administrator priviledges to write to '/usr/local'
Enter a password to elevate to Administrator rights when prompted
Password:                        (input user root password which I had set up previously according to the browser's instructions)
Sorry, try again.
Password:                        (attempted to input the UNIX password to see if results would change)
fsl is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
Sorry, you cannot install FSL as this user, either install as the root user
or as a user with sudo rights.
You can then re-run fsl_installer.sh with the -e option to setup your user
account for running FSL.



From this, I don't know where to proceed. One thing I have noted is that when extracting the fsl-4.1.8-centos5_64.tar.gz folder, no tar.gz file is present (none that I can find). do I need this file? If so, where would I find it? Thanks for any help or advice.

-Erik Valenti