Hi Zrinke,
yes, you're right. I just checked the relevant script and it appears that
the shipped version of FSL.app assumes FSL exists at /usr/local/fsl
I'm out of office this week but will fix this as soon as I'm back
thanks
christian
> Hi,
> I had the same problem when I tried installing new fsl on my computer. I
> have fsl installed in /usr/local/bin and when I copied the fsl
> folder from the new distribution, the FSL.app did not work. I did not
> want to change my path setting so I looked for a different solution.
> Finally I found that if I put a link to fsl in /usr/local/ (ln -s
> /usr/local/bin/fsl /usr/local/fsl) the FSL.app starts X11 and FSL
> without a problem. So, could it be that FSL.app is still looking for fsl
> to be in /usr/local/?
>
> thanks,
> zrinka
>
> On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Christian Beckmann wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> yes, while FSLView.app is fully self-contained and does not need to
>> know
>> about your local setup, FSL.app needs to know where to find the full
>> FSL
>> distribution. We did not want to force a certain install path for FSL
>> on
>> MacOSX (as we don't on any other platform - some users might not be
>> allowed to install in /usr/local), so you will have to set your
>> environment variables correctly. This, however, is quite simple:
>>
>> -if your terminal app runs tcsh as your shell just add the following
>> to your .cshrc in your home directory:
>> setenv FSLDIR /BLAH/fsl
>> setenv PATH $PATH\:${FSLDIR}/bin
>>
>> -or if (like me) you've changed your default shell to be bash then
>> just add these llines to your .profile in your home:
>> export FSLDIR=/BLAH/fsl
>> export PATH=$PATH:${FSLDIR}/bin
>>
>> The FSL.app is just a clickable shell script that, once these
>> environment
>> variables are present, will bring up X11 and call the relevant script
>> in
>> $FSLDIR/bin
>>
>> hope this helps
>> Christian
>>
>>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> I am having trouble running the FSL application that comes with the
>>> FSL
>>> 3.1 Mac OS X distribution. If I double-click the "FSL" app, it just
>>> starts but nothing happens. Running its companion however, the
>>> "FSLView" app, goes just fine.
>>>
>>> I dug into the FSL app and found a script which, if I set FSLDIR
>>> within
>>> it, will start the FSL front-end properly, so I know it COULD work
>>> (i.e., I have X Windows running, my DISPLAY variable set, Tk/Tcl
>>> installed, etc.)
>>>
>>> Is the FSL application that is being distributed for Mac OS X working
>>> properly? Is there anything I need to set up before it can work,
>>> even though running FSLView requires no forethought?
>>>
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>>
>>
> Zrinka Bilusic-Vezmar
> UCLA Brain Mapping
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