Release 5.32.03 on Ubuntu 12.04

You didn’t write how you “installed” ROOT … and it seems to me that something is wrong in there …
In general, you have two choices:

  1. use my installation instructions (ROOT’s “etcdir” is automatically set to “${ROOTSYS}/etc”): [url]Installing ROOT from Source
  2. configure your ROOT adding “–prefix=/Where/You/Want/To/Install/It --etcdir=/Where/You/Want/To/Install/It/etc/root” (if you do not set “etcdir”, it will default to “/etc/root”, regardless of what your “prefix” is)
    See also:
    [url]ROOT in SL 6.1
    [url]ROOT 5.32/00 support
    [url]Updating to new Root versions
    [url]Compiling root from source overheats certain computers
    [url]ROOTSYS and linux distribution installation