NeuroDebian
In general we do not recommend installing FSL from NeuroDebian - the version of FSL maintained by NeuroDebian is several years old. Instead, we recommend installing FSL via the fslinstaller.py script, as outlined on the main installation page.
When I run the installer it says there is a new version and then crashes
Version 3.0.0 has a bug in the self-update code. To get a newer version of the installer you will need to re-download the installer.
I'm running macOS and when I try to launch a FSL GUI I get `command not found` errors
The file system that macOS uses can't distinguish between upper and lower case filenames, so Feat and feat are the same. Consequently, the GUIs on the macOS release are called Toolname_gui for example Feat_gui.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5 and find that the FSL GUIs crash or don't seem to be working properly
We no longer support the use of FSL on Mac OS X 10.5 and would strongly recommend you upgrade (if possible) to a later version, OS X 10.12 being the current version. The version of X11 that Apple included with Mac OS X 10.5 has a significant number of bugs which can effect usage - especially with the clipboard handling. We would recommend that all users install the latest version of the XQuartz package available from https://www.xquartz.org/.
I'm running MATLAB on macOS and can't get the FSL NIFTI libraries to work
Look at the FslInstallation/MacOsX page for details on using these libraries with MATLAB.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 and the FSL GUIs don't work
We no longer support Mac OS X 10.4-10.8, so this has been kept for historical interest
Have you upgraded from Mac OS X 10.4? If so then you may have a .bash_profile (or .tcshrc or .cshrc) that breaks this behaviour. If you installed using the fsl_installer.sh script then download the current version and re-run it using the `-e` option.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4 and the FSL GUIs don't work
We no longer support Mac OS X 10.4-10.8, so this has been kept for historical interest
To run the FSL GUIs you need to be running the X11 program which can be found in /Applications/Utilities - it's icon is a white square with a black X superimposed on it. If you have this program running and you get an error like:
Error: Can't open display:
then you need to configure the Apple Terminal application to setup X11 correctly. You can do this by running the FSL installer with the -e option.
FSLView issues
Also, see the FslView/Faq for some installation issues you might come across with FSLView.