ROOT installation on my Laptop(Ubuntu)

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Hi,

I am trying to build root to my Laptop, I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I have Intel Core 2 processors. My machine hardware name is i686. When I try to make the code for “linux” arch. I had no problems, I seem to have all the prerequisites. But as you can imagine, installing it, since it is written for i386, is a little problematic.

Hence I tried it with the “linuxx8664gcc” architecture choice but this time I got a message that I don’t have all the prerequisite files(more specifically libx11-dev), but since I already installed and made the code with the prereq. files before I doubt that I don’t have them. What should I do now?

Thanks.

p.s: I have an ASUS F3J Laptop. I got the files using subversion, so it should be the latest version.I am a complete newbie to ROOT, so please be considerate :smiley: .

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Hi,

what does “uname -a” print?

Cheers, Axel.

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It prints : Linux Arcturus 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

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Hi,

you cannot run x86_64 on a 32bit machine, and yours is a 32 bit machine (i686).

So we need to work on “installing it, since it is written for i386, is a little problematic.”

Cheers, Axel.