Root Pro version 5.24/00 on Ubuntu 9.10

Dear Rooters,

I installed (well, got help to compile and install) the Pro version 5.24/00b yesterday on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine. Unfortunately it does not work very well. I did a simple test by running the simple graph.C tutorial and I get a crash on the line where the graph is draw. The output I get is:

[quote]Processing graph.C…
i 0 0.000000 1.986693
i 1 0.100000 2.955202
i 2 0.200000 3.894183
i 3 0.300000 4.794255
i 4 0.400000 5.646425
i 5 0.500000 6.442177
i 6 0.600000 7.173561
i 7 0.700000 7.833269
i 8 0.800000 8.414710
i 9 0.900000 8.912074
i 10 1.000000 9.320391
i 11 1.100000 9.635582
i 12 1.200000 9.854497
i 13 1.300000 9.974950
i 14 1.400000 9.995736
i 15 1.500000 9.916648
i 16 1.600000 9.738476
i 17 1.700000 9.463001
i 18 1.800000 9.092974
i 19 1.900000 8.632094

*** Break *** segmentation violation
Attaching to program: /proc/10618/exe, process 10618
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
0x001dd422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
error detected on stdin
A debugging session is active.

Inferior 1 [process 10618] will be detached.

Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
Detaching from program: /proc/10618/exe, process 10618
Root > Function test() busy flag cleared
[/quote]

As I said, if I only comment out the gr->Draw(“ACP”) in the macro it runs to the end without any complains. Can this be understood? Did something go wrong in my installation? Can it be fixed or am I forced to go back to version 5.18/00 that I used before on the same machine and which worked fine.

Hi,

Please try with version 5.25/04 and not 5.24. Version 5.24 or older cannot run on the latest Ubuntu systems.

Cheers,
Philippe.

I’ve just tried to install root 5.25/04 on Ubuntu 9.10

make & make install work fine, but when I try to start ROOT I get:

/opt/root-5.25.04-32bit/bin/root.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libCore.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The logo appears and nothing else happens

EDIT:
The library is correctly located in
/opt/root-5.25.04-32bit/lib/root/libCore.so

EDIT 2:
SOLVED.
I just sourced /opt/root-5.25.04-32bit/bin/thisroot.sh
and root seems working.