Patches

Patches are released for minor upgrades of FSL: e.g. 5.0.1 to 5.0.2

Applying a patch depends on what Operating System you are using:

1. Debian/Ubuntu

   • The recommended way is to apply the patch with the neurodebian repository via system update or apt-get

2. Binary packages - all other systems (Mac/Linux/Windows)
   • Download the patch file ( see link below ) for your system (you can choose between an upgrade from the previous version - e.g. 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 - or an upgrade from the base version - e.g. 5.0.0 to 5.0.2)

   • The patch file is a *.tar.gz file and needs to be unpacked in the right place with the following instructions

   • Put the patch file in a standard place (e.g. ~/Downloads/)

   • Start a terminal and do: cd $FSLDIR/..

   • Then: tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/fsl-macosx-patch-5.0.2_from_5.0.1.tar.gz

   • Note that you must use the appropriate path and name of the patch file in the above command and may need to use sudo before this if FSL was installed with sudo (i.e. in a place you do not normally have write permissions)

3. Source packages - all systems
   • As above, download and install the source patch and then recompile following the usual source compilation installation instructions

Patch files can be downloaded (for methods 2 or 3 above) from: http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsldownloads/patches/