# Setting Up Unix (Ubuntu) Local Paths?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/setting-up-unix-ubuntu-local-paths/25049>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 2, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/setting-up-unix-ubuntu-local-paths/25049 "2022-09-02T03:31:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Park](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/matt_park/32/16477_2.png) [@Matt\_Park](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Matt_Park)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/setting-up-unix-ubuntu-local-paths/25049/1 "2022-09-02T03:31:27Z")

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I am trying to use the Cervical Vertebra Tools extension on 5.03 r30893/7ea0f43 and am getting a “setup local paths variables” error. Searching has not found a good link.

Ubuntu 20.04

I get the following errors:

```auto
VisSimCommonLogic: initializing global variables:
 Defaults paths: 
      VisSimTools folder: /home/xyx/VisSimTools
      Output folder : /home/xyz/VisSimTools/outputs
      elastix binaries are found in /home/matt/Downloads/Slicer-5.0.3-linux-amd64/NA-MIC/Extensions-30893/SlicerElastix/lib/Slicer-5.0/elastix
      Spine Extension is selected
      Models or contents are wrong, trying to download ...
      Downloading VisSim Tools ... 
      Downloading VisSimTools others ...
     Extracting to user home 
      Error: can not download and extract VisSimTools ...
"There is no item named '/home/xyz/' in the archive"
setup local paths variables.........................
removeOtputsFolderContents ........................ 
STOPPED: error in input or during the segmentation
unsupported operand type(s) for >>: 'builtin_function_or_method' and 'PythonQtStdOutRedirect'. Did you mean "print(<message>, file=<output_stream>)"?

```

Thanks,  
Matt

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/setting-up-unix-ubuntu-local-paths/25049/2 "2022-09-02T12:15:44Z")

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Others [have asked about that extension](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/help-over-vissimtools/8203) on this forum and I don’t see that they got any answers. Try contacting the developers [on github](https://github.com/MedicalImageAnalysisTutorials/SlicerCervicalSpine) for suggestions.