Ubuntu 16.04 Installation Troubles

[sclark]

I am trying to install Root 6.08 on Ubuntu 16.04. I downloaded and unzipped the file in my home directory and am trying to build it with cmake 3.8.1. From my build directory (called rootbuild) if I run
cmake ../root
I get an error:

CMake Error: The source directory "/home/me/root" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

I noticed that CMakeLists.txt was in the test directory so I tried:

cmake ../root/test

and got:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindROOT.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "ROOT", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "ROOT" with any of
  the following names:

    ROOTConfig.cmake
    root-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "ROOT" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "ROOT_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "ROOT"
  provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
  installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/me/rootbuild/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

Anybody know how to fix this and complete the build? Thanks in advance for any help

[Danilo]

Hi,

what tarball did you download? Are you sure these are the sources?

Cheers,
D

[sclark]

I downloaded the Ubuntu 16 binary distribution

[Danilo]

if you want to build from sources, you should download the sources.

[sclark]

That seems to be working. I guess I didn’t know the difference between a source and a binary distribution but some googling after your comment helped. Thank you

[Danilo]

Hi,

you are very welcome!

Cheers,
D