Saturday, September 14, 2013

Root (version 6.04) installation in Ubuntu 16.04

ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to this field. (more.. (wiki) (homepage)).

Step 1 : Download root
Latest version of the root can be downloaded from here (http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/downloading-root).

2 comments:

  1. root-6.01/02 can be also installed with above steps.

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    1. Instead of writing these line:
      export ROOTSYS=/home/path-to-root-directory/root
      export PATH=$ROOTSYS/bin:$PATH
      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ROOTSYS/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

      You can write only one line as:
      source /your_root_dir_path/bin/thisroot.sh

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