I’ve been trying to install root for a while now, and I still can’t manage to do it after watching several posts. I have all the required and suggested packages, and I’m trying to install the version 6.12.06 from the source. So far, ./configure seems to be doing its work, but make gives this after a while
*** Building core/lz4/src/lz4-1.7.5/lib/liblz4.a…
gzip: /home/jt/ROOT/root-6.12.06/core/lz4/src/1.7.5.tar.gz: unexpected end of file
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
/bin/sh: 11: cd: can’t cd to lz4-1.7.5
make[1]: Entering directory /home/jt/ROOT/root-6.12.06/core/lz4/src’ make[1]: *** No rule to make targetlib’. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jt/ROOT/root-6.12.06/core/lz4/src’
make: *** [core/lz4/src/lz4-1.7.5/lib/liblz4.a] Error 2
configure is deprecated: please use CMake. 6.14 has been released last week: perhaps, given that you are installing from scratch, would it make sense to consider that release instead of 6.12?
I’ve arleady tried to use cmake, but my system doesn’t allow me to get over the version 3.2 (3.4 is needed for root). I still don’t know why that’s happening.
you can always download and compile CMake in your home directory: you can then get CMake 3.4. Note that this is a requirement, without CMake, you cannot have ROOT.