Problem installing ROOT on UBUNTU 14.04

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I am trying to install ROOT on a 64 bit machine. I’ve tried the obvious choice of using Ubuntu software. But the package was missing many headers such as TLorentzVerctor.h. I am trying now to install it from the website. here is what I did:

git clone root.cern.ch/git/root.git

cd root/

./configure

make -j 4

after some time i get the following crash message:
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bin/rootcling -rootbuild -f graf3d/x3d/src/G__X3d.cxx -s lib/libX3d.so -rml libX3d.so -rmf lib/libX3d.rootmap -m lib/libCore_rdict.pcm -m lib/libGraf3d._rdict.pcm -m lib/libGui._rdict.pcm -c /home/mzakaria2/root/graf3d/x3d/inc/TViewerX3D.h /home/mzakaria2/root/graf3d/x3d/inc/TX3DFrame.h /home/mzakaria2/root/graf3d/x3d/inc/LinkDef.h
graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o: In function TNamed::ShowMembers(TMemberInspector&) const': TGX11TTF.cxx:(.text._ZNK6TNamed11ShowMembersER16TMemberInspector[_ZNK6TNamed11ShowMembersER16TMemberInspector]+0x21): undefined reference toROOT::Class_ShowMembers(TClass*, void const*, TMemberInspector&)'
graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o: In function TGX11TTF::ShowMembers(TMemberInspector&) const': TGX11TTF.cxx:(.text._ZNK8TGX11TTF11ShowMembersER16TMemberInspector[_ZNK8TGX11TTF11ShowMembersER16TMemberInspector]+0x21): undefined reference toROOT::Class_ShowMembers(TClass*, void const*, TMemberInspector&)'
graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0x310): undefined reference to TVirtualX::GetFontAscent(char const*) const' graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0x320): undefined reference toTVirtualX::GetFontDescent(char const*) const’
graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0x960): undefined reference to TAttLine::SetLineColorAlpha(short, float)' graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0x9f0): undefined reference toTAttFill::SetFillColorAlpha(short, float)'
graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0xa98): undefined reference to TAttText::SetTextColorAlpha(short, float)' graf2d/x11ttf/src/TGX11TTF.o:(.data.rel.ro._ZTV8TGX11TTF[_ZTV8TGX11TTF]+0xb30): undefined reference toTAttMarker::SetMarkerColorAlpha(short, float)'
graf2d/x11ttf/src/G__GX11TTF.o: In function ROOT::GenerateInitInstanceLocal(TGX11TTF const*)': G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x110): undefined reference toROOT::TGenericClassInfo::TGenericClassInfo(char const*, int, char const*, int, std::type_info const&, ROOT::TInitBehavior const*, TClass* ()(), TVirtualIsAProxy, int, int)‘
graf2d/x11ttf/src/G__GX11TTF.o: In function TGX11TTF::Class()': G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x2b8): undefined reference togInterpreterMutex’
G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x2f0): undefined reference to gInterpreterMutex' G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x32c): undefined reference togInterpreterMutex’
G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x35b): undefined reference to gInterpreterMutex' graf2d/x11ttf/src/G__GX11TTF.o: In function(anonymous namespace)::TriggerDictionaryInitialization_libGX11TTF_Impl()’:
G__GX11TTF.cxx:(.text+0x593): undefined reference to `TROOT::RegisterModule(char const*, char const**, char const**, char const*, char const*, void (*)(), std::vector<std::pair<std::string, int>, std::allocator<std::pair<std::string, int> > > const&, char const**)'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [lib/libGX11TTF.so] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…

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your help is appreciated.

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You mention that you tried to play with the standard Ubuntu’s ROOT distribution.
Before trying to configure your own ROOT from scratch, did you make sure that you “completely removed” / “purged” (i.e. “remove with any associated configuration files”) all standard Ubuntu’s ROOT related packages?

In principle, I am able to build ROOT using [url=https://root-forum.cern.ch/t/installing-root-from-source/13647/1 favorite build method[/url].
See, for example, [url=https://root-forum.cern.ch/t/trouble-installing/18046/11 old post[/url].

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[quote=“Wile E. Coyote”]You mention that you tried to play with the standard Ubuntu’s ROOT distribution.
Before trying to configure your own ROOT from scratch, did you make sure that you “completely removed” / “purged” (i.e. “remove with any associated configuration files”) all standard Ubuntu’s ROOT related packages?

In principle, I am able to build ROOT using [url=https://root-forum.cern.ch/t/installing-root-from-source/13647/1 favorite build method[/url].
See, for example, [url=https://root-forum.cern.ch/t/trouble-installing/18046/11 old post[/url].[/quote]

The method you referred me to did the required job. The important thing was to run “make distclean” or maybe better “make maintainer-clean”

Thank you very much.