Different INSTALL-directory structure for different installation methods

[Wile_E_Coyote]

Well, “gnuinstall” would only be needed if you installed it into some system directories (e.g. “/usr”).
I would stay away from it, if I were you (I prefer the “old fashioned” structure and then many additional tools, which use ROOT, may choke on it when it is “gnuinstall-ed”).

BTW. I think you should be prepared to keep several different ROOT versions under “/opt/root” so you’d better try something like “-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/root/6.20.04” (and / or “/opt/root/6.23.01”).

Sourcing root for all users

So, the common approach for sourcing ROOT seems to be just including source /path/to/root/bin/thisroot.sh in your ~/.bashrc I was thinking that in order for it to work for all users, you could do the same in /etc/bash.bashrc (but that doesn’t seem to work). And that for it to work also when accessing the computer via SSH, you could do the same in /etc/environment. Neither of these options, however, seem to work for me, and I’m at my wits’ end. How have/would you solve this? I want to set t…