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InstallROOT6

Guide to install Cern root from surces at Debian based Linux

The instal.sh script is generated automatically with the following commands in this file. It can install all if there is not a dependence problem

ROOT requires several external libraries in order to properly run, then it is mandatory to install them - First Update and upgrade the distro

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install cmake git dpkg-dev make g++ gcc binutils libx11-dev libxpm-dev \
libxft-dev libxext-dev gfortran libssl-dev libpcre3-dev \
xlibmesa-glu-dev libglew1.5-dev libftgl-dev \
libfftw3-dev libcfitsio-dev graphviz-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev \
libldap2-dev python3-dev libxml2-dev libkrb5-dev libgsl0-dev python3-pip \
r-base r-base-dev gsl-bin libgsl-dev ocaml libz3-dev libxpm-dev libxft-dev

Getting External Dependencies (Optional)

R dependencies. First runn R

sudo R

Inside the R terminal

install.packages(c('Rcpp','RInside','C50','xgboost','e1071','RSNNS'))
quit()

Install Python dependencies

sudo pip3 install scikit-learn numpy matplotlib scipy jupyter ipython metakernel

Getting the code from github

Clone the code from the repository at GitHub

#git clone --branch latest-stable --depth=1 https://github.com/root-project/root.git
git clone http://root.cern.ch/git/root.git
cd root

Compile and setup

Set the last stable version. At the time of the last modification to this document the lates version was v6-24-00-patches

git checkout v6-28-00-patches

Create a new folder for the installation, and compile. At the last line the 8 is the number of cores, you can change for yours.

mkdir v6-28-00-patches
cd v6-28-00-patches
cmake -Dr=ON -Dpython3=ON -Dhttp=ON ..
#Max threads
make -j $(grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo)
#for single core or less than max use
#make -j @ #Where @ is the number of cores 

Setup ROOT in your environment

Set the path to root

ROOT_FOLDER_PATH=$(pwd)
THISROOT_PATH="source "$ROOT_FOLDER_PATH"/bin/thisroot.sh"
echo $THISROOT_PATH >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Setup the pyrootModules

cd $ROOT_FOLDER_PATH/etc/notebook/kernels/
sudo jupyter kernelspec install root
cd $ROOT_FOLDER_PATH