Install older AFNI version on Mac M1

Installation Issues
1

Hi,

Is it possible to install a older version, namely 21.1.09, on a Mac with chip M1?
Which procedure should I follow?

Thanks,
Giovanni

2

Hi, Giovani-

I think that should be possible. If you are already using AFNI on that computer, I think you should be able to just run:

build_afni.py \
    -build_root $HOME/afni_build \
    -package macos_13_ARM_clang \
    -git_tag AFNI_21.1.09

Most of that command is just the normal build command, with the git_tag .. option added to allow specifying a particular build.

--pt

3

Hi Paul,

I was not using AFNI on this specific computer.
I started by installing the current version following the guide for chip M1 Mac, but I get the error "command not found" both when I type "afni" and "afni_system_check.py -check_all", even though I could see the latter in the abin folder.

4

OK. If you haven't gone through the AFNI install steps, then you need to follow the first couple steps here for macOS ARM/M1/M2/etc, in order to get all dependencies for building and running AFNI.

In step E above, that is basically downloading+running another installer script, called OS_notes.macos_12_b_user.tcsh, which contains a build_afni.py command; that can be edited to have the -git_tag ... option.

If you have gone through setup and abin/ exists with files in it, but you aren't able to run them, then likely that location has either not been added to your shell's path. Can you open a new terminal and see then if which afni outputs the location to the program "afni", which it should? (Opening a new terminal means that the ~/.*rc and/or ~/.*profile file for the shell is read or sourced, where the abin is likely added to your shell path.)

--pt

5

That's exactly what I did, step E included.
If I type "which afni", I still get "afni: Command not found".
My login shell is set on /bin/tcsh by default, so I set the path (Set path = ( $path ~/abin ) in the ~/.tcshrc file. Is that correct?

6

To double check---in the ~/.tcshrc file, is the "set" really with a capital "S"? The default macOS text editor will do that, but you should keep it lowercase.

Typically, the AFNI installer script will put the

set path = ( $path ~/abin )

line in ~/.cshrc, and then make sure that that file is sourced from ~/.tcshrc (the latter of which has preference in order of shell reading). Is that the case?

--pt

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Let me say.. thank you for this time you are devoting to help me!

Anyhow, as you can see in the screenshot attached, I do no see the ~/.cshrc file.

8

That's surprising. Did you run the 3 setup/install scripts from the main page?

--pt

9

I did, twice. But obviously I did something wrong, despite I don't know what.
I can try a third time. How do I prepare for that, just removing the abin folder? Or only its content?

10

Maybe it will help if I can see the contents of the relevant ~/.* files. I will PM you about packaging+sending that.

--pt