[MINC-users] Official Installation Instructions

[Luis Concha]

As an end-user, I could not agree more. More than half of the posts to this
mailing list are about compilation/installation issues, rather than usage
questions. Minc tools are great, but widespread adoption can only happen if
they are accessible, and wide spread adoption means quicker advancement and
evolution towards more greatness.
On Jul 1, 2012 2:00 PM, "Mishkin Derakhshan" <mishkind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So I needed to install minc on a fresh ubuntu 12.04 32-bit machine at
> home and I thought I would approach the issue as any other potential
> minc user would by googling "minc".
>
> There are a few hits that look right, but going with this is the first
> sensible one:
>
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/MINC/
> which has some links to debian packages, but sadly, not the one I am
> looking for. I also see links to packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/tgz/ to
> download some tarballs. Maybe that is what I should do?
>
> If (by chance) I click on the menus on the left I can stumble upon this:
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/ServicesSoftwareMincToolKit
>
> This also looks promising, but again I don't see the exact version I'm
> looking for, and 32-bit support sounds iffy. I remember seeing a bunch
> of other links on the previous webpage (and google) so I check out:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC
> which has some nice details about what is supported and gives me two more
> links.
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Tutorials/BinaryInstalls
> which for me is no good because it only goes up to ubuntu 10.10 and in
> 64 bit, so I look at this:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MINC/Tutorials/SourceInstall
> which again has some nicely detailed instructions, and it looks like
> this is what I want:
> https://github.com/vfonov/EZminc/raw/master/build_quarantine/Makefile
>
> I've used this in the past, and it has worked so I am inclined to just
> use it. BUT, I remember this google hit for MINC:
> https://github.com/BIC-MNI/
>
> And I think to myself, well maybe I should use the EZminc from BIC-MNI
> instead of vfonov. Seems more official.
> Looking on that website though, it seems that what I really want is
> this (there was a link to it on this page too
> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesSoftware/ServicesSoftwareMincToolKit)
>
> https://github.com/BIC-MNI/minc-toolkit
>
> The README displayed at the bottom of the page looks great, though it
> lists dependencies for only 11.10, and there is a bad link (I'm
> guessing, this should be BIC-MNI instead of vfonov):
> git clone git://github.com/vfonov/minc-toolkit.git minc-toolkit
>
> I know that many of these pages exist to satisfy the wide range of
> systems that we are trying to support, but it would be useful to have
> a "blessed" set of instructions. For example, if you google FSL or
> Freesurfer, within 1 or 2 very easily guided clicks you know what to
> do.
>
> My suggestion, is to keep one of the pages (wikibooks, github, BIC
> webpage) up to date, and have the other ones all have big bold links
> that tell you to go to the "official" installation instructions page.
>
> Sorry for the long rant,
>
> mishkin
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