FSL and Linux installation

September 4, 2010 1:21 PM

I need help (via chat if possible) - I'm trying to install FSL on Linux (in a Windows environment via VMware) and running into some snags. I'm very new to Linux but overall a competent computer user. I'm stuck trying to configure it & bring up the gui.
posted by sociolibrarian to computers & internet (4 answers total)

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posted by xueexueg at 1:44 PM on September 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

The instructions you've linked to are for installing FSL in Linux with an installer, not for installing in Windows. Since there's a Linux version of FSL available, you probably don't need to install it Windows in VMWare, and you probably don't need the Linux installer from their site either.

First check to see if it's available from your Linux distribution's repositories. Click on "Add/Remove Software" under "Applications," or "Package Manager" under "Administration," or "Software Center" if you're using Ubuntu. Whatever distro you're using, find the package manager and search for FSL. If they have it, just click on it, confirm, and it will install automatically. (Package mangers are one of the nicest features of Linux - you shouldn't need a special installer unless you want to install something your distro doesn't have in it's repositories.)

Ubuntu seems to have it in their repositories. Clicking on "fslview" after searching for it pulls up a list of FSL dependences that will install if you click OK. That should be all you have to do.



OK, xueexueg, see your message above.
posted by nangar at 2:21 PM on September 4, 2010

Sorry, nangar. What I meant to say was that I have Windows 7, and needed VMware to get the Linux environment.
posted by sociolibrarian at 2:34 PM on September 4, 2010

If you have a decent amount of disk space available (say, 10G), you can install Ubuntu via wubi and create a dual-boot environment without having to repartition the HD. I just re-did my wubi installation last night to upgrade to 10.04 and it was perfectly painless. Downside is that you'll have to choose one or the other (windows or linux) at boot-time. Upside is that installing the fsl stuff in Ubuntu looks to pretty much be a one-click affair (as nangar points out).
posted by jquinby at 3:00 PM on September 4, 2010