Installation problems (Ubuntu 14.04)

[Wile_E_Coyote]

Missing Canvas

Honestly speaking, sooner or later, you will learn by hard that the policy of using a “system-provided” ROOT version (e.g. in “/usr/[bin|lib]” or “/usr/local/[bin|lib]”) is a dead end. You will learn that you need something like three different versions of ROOT - just because something that works with a particular ROOT version is not working with another ones, or because some piece of your additional, experiment / analysis specific, software explicitly requires a particular ROOT version. The s…

Trouble Installing

The easiest way would be to build ROOT “in-place” (in case anything goes wrong you’ll have additional “configure.out.txt” and “make.out.txt” files to look into): rm -rf v5-34-00-patches git clone -b v5-34-00-patches http://root.cern.ch/git/root.git v5-34-00-patches cd v5-34-00-patches unset ROOTSYS ./configure --enable-soversion --all > configure.out.txt 2>&1 make > make.out.txt 2>&1 On some newer operating systems, you may need to add “--enable-gsl-shared --disable-fitsio” into the “co…