I do not recommend that you use the Fink version of AFNI. It was compiled a long time ago, and the person who did it does not keep it up to date. He was going to tell me how to do it, but never finished doing so; therefore, we don't keep the Fink-ized AFNI binaries current. We don't know how, and aren't willing to figure it out -- we want someone to spoon feed us simple instructions.

Instead, you should download either macosx_10.3.tgz or Mac_AFNI.dmg from [afni.nimh.nih.gov]. The first is a standard Unix tarball of all the Mac binaries. The second is an Apple disk image of the same files. If you download Mac_AFNI.dmg to your desktop (say), then open it, you'll get single folder, cleverly named Mac_AFNI. This directory contains all the AFNI binaries, compiled on a G4 running Panther. You can drag this directory to somewhere, say your home directory, to make a copy on the hard disk, then put this directory in your path; then you should be able to run AFNI. If you don't understand the concept of "path", you need to learn a little about Unix.

After you install AFNI, you can update it the same way, or you can use the UPDATER script, which you can find at [afni.nimh.nih.gov].

Finally, I just discovered that G4 binaries for AFNI won't run on a G5. I'm not sure why. They used to. So if you have a G5, then at present you'll have to compile AFNI yourself, since I don't make G5 Mac binaries for distribution at this time.

bob cox