I am trying to install Root on a machine that runs Fedora 25. I am following the INSTALL file that I found in the README folder obtained ultimately from the archive from the ROOT website. My problem is that when I try to run the second point from Section 3.1, namely cmake ../root I get the followin…

Welcome to the wonderful world of linux. I would suggest checking out some tutorials, I have suggested these in the past: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ . I strongly suggest you learn about paths as you questions are mainly focused on that aspect. A quick run down of your questions: […

The path after the cmake command indicates which CMakeLists.txt file that CMake should attempt to read. The idea here is that you have extracted the source files to a location, created a build directory and instructed CMake where to look for those source files. For root 6.08/06 one would do the foll…

Also, it appears that you had resolved your issue in another thread : [image] Unable to plot simple function I have followed the instructions provided on the webpage you suggested and this time it worked. Thank you!

First of all, thank you very much for your detailed explanations of the commands. They were very helpful and I now have a more complete image of what is happening. Secondly, I did somewhat solve the issue (I managed to install it, run it and also plot a function) but when I got home and tried to re…

This command can be added to your login scripts. I assume you are using bash, as such you should appended the line to ~/.bash_profile.

Due to the fact that I am a Linux noob, I unfortunately do not know where to find the file in order to add the command to it. Also, I noticed that the command source bin/thisroot.sh only works when I first enter in the build directory. Is is possible to somehow go around this? Is this considered a…

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ksmith May 9, 2017, 2:41pm 4

Also, it appears that you had resolved your issue in another thread: