Root-config: command not found when trying to execute thisroot.sh

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Hello,

I am trying to install and use ROOT on my Windows 10 laptop but am getting an error message when trying to execute “. /bin/thisroot.sh” It says “root-config: command not found”, however I have double checked that root-config is located in the same directory as thisroot.sh. I have looked at previous forums that have expressed that they have the same error message, however none of the solutions have helped. Any help would be appreciated!

Sam

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Welcome to the ROOT Forum!
Unless you are using bash in WSL, on Windows you must call bin\thisroot.bat

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Hi bellenot,

Thank you for replying. I’ve tried that as well, but I get a different error:

@echo: command not found
rem: command not found
: command not found
rem: command not found
: command not found
bash: cd: /D: No such file or directory
bash: cd: /D: No such file or directory
: no such jobTH%
: no such jobAKE_PREFIX_PATH%
: no such jobTHONPATH%

Thank you,
Sam

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OK, so apparently you’re working in WSL. So how did you install ROOT? Which exact version (i.e. which tar file)?

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Hi bellenot,

I did the exact steps listed in the ‘Building ROOT from Source’ webpage. Not sure if that helps or not. I did not get any error messages when doing cmake, so I’m not sure what the problem is at this point.

Thanks
Sam

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Can you confirm that you are working in WSL? And BTW, why didn’t you simply download a pre-built binary?

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Hi bellenot,

I had issues previously using a pre-built binary, so I tried to install from source. I tried again, and I was successfully able to install ROOT using the pre-built binary. Thank you for your help.

Thanks
Sam

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