Download and installation

Public key of the Lipsia-Repository has changed!!  

To renew your key you have to use the following command on the commandline:
$> curl http://lipsia.cbs.mpg.de/lipsia/lipsia.gpg | apt-key add -

Important: This has to be done as root!

Lipsia is developed for Debian GNU Linux primarily. You'll find precompiled packages for different Releases of Debian and Ubuntu and for Red Hat as well. All packages are available for x86_64 and i686 CPUs.

The current stable release is version 2.2.7 .

Important: Lipsia is not a single application but a collection of commandline tools for the processing and evaluation of fMRI data. To get an overview of the basic concepts and programs it is highly recommended to have a look at the "How to get started" section in the Lipsia documentation.You can access the Lipsia documentation on the commandline with the following command:

$> lipsia-help

Install Lipsia packages on Debian/Ubuntu

Register the package repository and install Lipsia

APT-configuration files from the list of supported platforms:

  • Debian 5.0 old-stable (lenny): Download !no longer supported!
  • Debian 6.0 stable (squeeze): Download
  • Debian 7.0 testing (wheezy): Download
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” (lucid): Download !no longer supported!
  • Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” (natty): Download
  • Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” (oneiric):Download
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin“ (precise):Download

Installing Lipsia on an APT-based distribution like Debian or Ubuntu is quite simple, just follow these steps:

  1. Download an APT-configuration file. Simply choose your target distribution/release from the list above and use the corresponding link to save the configuration file ( 90lipsia-repository.list ) to disk. Depending on you browser you may need to Right-Click on the link and choose the option "Save As" to download the file.
  2. After the download copy the configuration file to the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ . You may need administrative rights to do so.
  3. To update the package cache and install the Lipsia files on your machine, use your favorite package management application (e.g. synaptic). On the commandline you can use the APT-tools like this:

$> apt-get update
$> apt-get install lipsia

Configure SecureApt (optional)

After updating the package cache (Step 3, above) you might encounter a GPG error message. On a Debian 5.0 (lenny) system it looks like this:

GPG error: file: lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2DE59D04BA694FA3 You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

The reason for this message is the SecureApt subsystem which warns the user that he could install packages from an untrusted source. To tell SecureApt that the Lipsia repository is a trusted source, you have to install it on the commandline with the command

$> curl http://lipsia.cbs.mpg.de/lipsia/lipsia.gpg | apt-key add -

Important: This has to be done as root!

Install Lipsia packages on Red Hat 5 !not supported at the moment!

Register the package repository and install Lipsia

There are Lipsia packages available for the Red Hat 5 platform precompiled for x86_64 CPUs. To register the RPM repository and install the package files, follow these steps:

  1. Download the RPM-configuration file ( lipsia-rpm.repo ) from here and save it to disk. Depending on your browser you may need to Right-Click on the link and choose the option "Save As" to download the file.
  2. After the download copy the file to the directory /etc/yum.repos.d/ . You may need administrative rights to do so.
  3. To install Lipsia on your system, execute the following command on the commandline:


$> yum install lipsia


Download sources as a tgz file

If you want to build the packages by yourself (e.g. to run Lipsia or vast on additional platforms) you can download the tags from GitHub.com:

The VIA and ISIS libraries are prerequisites to build Lipsia. All projects make use of the CMake build system.
For an introduction to CMake see the CMake tutorial pages which can be found here.

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