Even if root sucks, I got to install it on several machine (laptop, office desktop, home deskop...). So here it is the recipe for a Kubuntu box.
- install X11 pixmap library and its development headers:
- download source tarball, e.g root_v5.17.02.source.tar.gz from http://root.cern.ch/root/Version517.html
- actual install it:
sudo apt-get install libxpm4 libxpm-dev
sudo mkdir /root++
mv root_v5.17.02.source.tar.gz /root++
cd /root++
tar -xzvf root_v5.17.02.source.tar.gz
export ROOTSYS=/root++/root
cd root
./configure
make
/root++ is the directory where you want to install root into.Hope this can help someone else.
2 comments:
Hi,
I've just received the new mail from labinfo (edt. 2007/08) and I was wondering... if root sucks (and this is widely known) are you going teaching it this time? and what about trying to do something with Matlab (or better, Octave)?
I hope to hear some news from this,
Cristian
p.s.. you can imagine what I've thought when I saw "root sucks"?...
Unfortunately it's not up to me (despite the fact it sucks, it's widely used, especially in phenomenology HEP, and it's also a next-year labs demand, since students are supposed to make large use of it...).
PS
No, actually I can't imagine what are you referring to...
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