FreeSurfer Version 7 Release

This page describes the version 7.X.X releases of FreeSurfer. Below are the install packages and tar archives for download and install.

We recommend using the *.rpm packages to install freesurfer on CentOS/RedHat linux, the *.deb package for Ubuntu and and the *.pkg installer for MacOS. The install packages check system dependencies at installation time and update the system with any needed packages. If you do not have root/sudo/admin privileges on the machine you want to install freesurfer on, then use the tar archives instead. Please however do not expand any tar archive such that the path to FREESURFER_HOME is /usr/local/freesurfer on linux or /Applications/freesurfer on MacOS. These paths are overwritten by the installer packages so manual installs there may not be preserved.

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FreeSurfer Release 7 System Requirements

Summary of Requirements:
See list of supported operating systems for each release below.
Intel processor supporting AVX instructions
RAM: 8GB for recon, 16GB suggested for viewing graphics
Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers
Size of installed image: 10GB
Typical size of a processed subject: 300MB
Other requirements: Matlab (only needed to run FS-FAST, the fMRI analysis stream)

Linux install and setup: here.

Mac install and setup: here.

A VM image with the 7.3.0 release is forthcoming.
Ubuntu 18.04 VM disk image (.vdi) with the 7.2.0 Release: A VirtualBox Ubuntu image to run on Windows, the Mac and/or other Linux OS flavors VM_setup. Can be used to run the freesurfer tutorial commands.

Run freeview with Windows 10 Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): here.

Note: version 7.0.0 has been recalled (see release notes). Please do not use 7.0.0. The links below are for more recent releases.



7.3.1 release

Linux OS: CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18, Ubuntu20
Mac OS: 10.14, 10.15, 11.X, 12.X (Intel binaries).

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.3.1.tar.gz

6.1G

3a5f17db53a5d905ff2a92b5999a75f4

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm

5.0G

de781f4aff09c1c053657314154c0f9d

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.3.1.tar.gz

6.1G

b0832ea983bcc9d04a161a845b531c41

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm

5.0G

7806a177599f464fa8e132302e6ffb40

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.3.1.tar.gz

6.1G

e9dd30392d14180d0234e7fb5e37b743

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer_ubuntu18-7.3.1_amd64.deb

4.2G

d433983d8ce01ddc6d33e173487d9331

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu20_amd64-7.3.1.tar.gz

6.1G

de78d22101ade76f175bdedc2db385de

Linux

Ubuntu 20 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer_ubuntu20-7.3.1_amd64.deb

4.2G

36c5c63786875c5c700e8f558b4e95d3

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive *

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.1.tar.gz

4.9G

447609c9c94bbe17fd545c321665e078

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer *

7.3.1 release

July 2022

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.3.1.pkg

4.9G

b493478e76e8c351673d54ab0c17a140

* Mac users should download and install the Xquartz 2.8.2 release from https://www.xquartz.org

7.2.0 release

Linux OS: CentOS6, CentOS7, CentOS8, Ubuntu18
Mac OS: 10.12 thru 10.15, 11.X (Intel binaries)

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos6_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

eae2d09b063794bf2c8ed3e50ee80bd8

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS6-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

538fc84f5d15d3398e1a339767ce4597

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

9d2d1576b0ddf587274130052530a200

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

2f88f3b751dbcc5ebc91ebf2c736e920

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

1e23201345a69f0263630ac0706f4104

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

3.8G

020c62a9808bc21901aa36d6ab454cac

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-linux-ubuntu18_amd64-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.7G

aae6b77f759e566bb1d2682019717bdd

Linux

Ubuntu 18 amd64 (64b) DEB installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer_7.2.0_amd64.deb

3.1G

c8c73f5d2ef134f74305770b67436531

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) tar archive

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0.tar.gz

4.2G

3c3a099232f259006eef945fa3e53c80

MacOS

MacOS X darwin (64b) PKG installer

7.2.0 release

July 2021

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.2.0.pkg

4.2G

a11df11ae70ff06552910dd82e8736d3

7.1.1 release

Linux OS: CentOS6, CentOS7, CentOS8
Mac OS: 10.12 thru 10.15, 11.X (Intel binaries)

OS

Build Platform

Version

Release Date

Download

Size

MD5 sum

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos6_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.4G

b573573ed6a9317ccde9ff6b76d0a2da

Linux

CentOS 6 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS6-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.7G

323ce6d2bc51f5fee116bf2df90e187d

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos7_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.3G

2edffb289ad068c1e934ff8a2cbb4fb0

Linux

CentOS 7 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS7-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.6G

7f06be7ee8e8bdc6d4f364b97225d1a8

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-linux-centos8_x86_64-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.3G

2edffb289ad068c1e934ff8a2cbb4fb0

Linux

CentOS 8 x86_64 (64b) RPM installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-CentOS8-7.1.1-1.x86_64.rpm

3.6G

7f06be7ee8e8bdc6d4f364b97225d1a8

MacOS

MacOS darwin (64b Intel) tar archive

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.1.1.tar.gz

4.1G

6c304330b4b1765db99c00a56ef028bc

MacOS

MacOS darwin (64b Intel) PKG installer

7.1.1 release

July 2020

freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.1.1.pkg

4.1G

8e87a069fd90fd50d31ee0729c58c6d6

Important Note: When processing a group of subjects for your study, it is essential to process all your subjects with the same version of FreeSurfer, on the same OS platform and vendor, and for safety, even the same version of the OS. While we continue to work to ensure that results match across platforms, there are none-the-less system-level libraries that are OS dependent. An exception to this rule is that you may view and edit files across any platform or version, and run some post-processing tools (outside the recon-all stream) if you check with us first (for instance you may run the longitudinal processing with newer versions).