Install 1.8

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If all you want to do is run one or two specific VoxBo programs, no special installation is needed. Just download the program you need (links are on the wiki pages for each tool) and run it. You might need to mark the program as executable, but that's about it.

Slightly more elaborate installation is required if you need the whole VoxBo package, e.g. to do fMRI analysis. VoxBo has two major modes of installation. Cluster mode takes better advantage of all the resources in a cluster, and allows you to manage multiple job sequences more flexibly, but requires root access and some extra work to configure. Desktop mode allows you to run your jobs interactively, and is much easier to install. Installation notes are on the pages for the two modes.

Note that even if VoxBo is installed in cluster mode on your machine or in your lab, you can still run things in desktop mode by setting the environment variable VOXBO_CORES. The value of this variable tells VoxBo how many CPU cores to use on the machine you're on. If you set it to 2 and run vbprep, then your prep job will run using 2 cores on your machine, even if there's an existing queue. You can set this variable persistently like this:

export VOXBO_CORES=3

or just for a single job, like this:

export VOXBO_CORES=3 vbprep myscript.vbp
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