Cannot find $ROOTSYS after Homebrew install

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I cannot find my $ROOTSYS after installing root on my Mac with homebrew (i.e. brew install root)

In particular, I am searching for the tutorial directory so as to run and modify ROOT: tutorials/unfold/testUnfold1.C File Reference

Thanks in advance,
Will

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Hi @Will_Flanagan,

there have been some issues with homebrew and ROOT installation recently. As a ROOT Team we don’t manage homebrew packages, so we won’t be able to help here.

What I suggest instead is installing ROOT using one of our binaries available here: Installing ROOT - ROOT . The very recent release that works with MacOS 15 is 6.32.06.

Cheers,
Marta

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Apple Spotlight does not find it ?

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No, unfortunately it does not.

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Marta,

Understood - I may need to install using the binaries. I am only hesitant since my homebrew install otherwise works well. (I am using ROOT 6.32.06 and macOS 15.0 as you mention).

I often start projects by modifying existing code in the tutorials directory. Is there any way to download (sftp, scp, git, etc) only the tutorials subdirectory?

Thanks,
Will

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Hi @Will_Flanagan,

I guess you could just git clone the ROOT repository: git clone https://github.com/root-project/root.git and delete everything but the tutorials directory? That’s nothing ROOT specific so any other way could work as well.

Cheers,
Marta