Installing/compiling ROOT 6.06/08 on Kubuntu 14.10

ROOT
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There aren’t really any instructions how to install/compile ROOT neither on root.cern.ch/downloading-root nor in the README files. This is what I tried:

Downloaded root_v6.06.08.source.tar.gz and unpacked it.
CDed into the root directory where I had unpacked it to.

Following wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Programme_kompilieren/ I guess ./configure, make, sudo checkinstall is the way to go?

./configure seems to run successful, a lot of information/success messages as far as I can tell, nothing says Error.

make ends with this error:

core/metautils/src/TMetaUtils.o: Datei nicht erkannt: Datei abgeschnitten collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status /home/monika/programme/root/core/utils/Module.mk:39: recipe for target 'core/utils/src/rootcling_tmp' failed make: *** [core/utils/src/rootcling_tmp] Error 1
where Datei nicht erkannt = file not recognized and Datei abgeschnitten = file cut off.

Help?

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Hi,
Does this guide not cover it? Or am I missing something?
root.cern.ch/building-root

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If you use gcc 4.[89].x, ROOT 6.06 (note: use 6.06/08 instead of the older 6.06/06) -> Trouble compiling ROOT 6
If you use gcc 5.x, ROOT 6.06 (note: use 6.06/08 instead of the older 6.06/06) -> Memory leak in ROOT::Math::IntegratorMultiDim
Any gcc version, ROOT v5-34-00-patches -> Trouble Installing
See also -> No graphical output

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[quote=“doubleAron”]Hi,
Does this guide not cover it? Or am I missing something?
root.cern.ch/building-root[/quote]
Ah, I didn’t find that guide.

Step 5 cmake --build . seems to have run successfully (counted up to 100%, no errors), I did step 6, sourcing the thisroot.sh … but I can’t run root (step 7). I get the error message that the application root is currently not installed.

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No problem!
I’m not sure what is causing your current problem. Did you try running root from the same tab you sourced thisroot.sh in? Or are you sourcing thisroot.sh from your bashrc?

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In the same tab.

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I found out that one can install ROOT 5 from the repository, the package name is root-system-bin.

Would be nice if they mentioned that somewhere on root.cern.ch/downloading-root , would have saved me several days of googling and trial and error :-/ . With a name like root it’s also not exactly easy to find in a repository.