Installing CERN's ROOT framework

Prerequisites

(Via Elena Graverini's blog)

Prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git subversion dpkg-dev make g++ gcc binutils libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxft-dev libxext-dev

Optional (recommended) prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install gfortran libssl-dev libpcre3-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglew-dev libftgl-dev libmysqlclient-dev libfftw3-dev libcfitsio3-dev graphviz-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libldap2-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libkrb5-dev libgsl0-dev libqt4-dev

Install font server and fonts for ROOT:

sudo apt-get install xfs xfstt
sudo apt-get install t1-xfree86-nonfree ttf-xfree86-nonfree ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi

Installation

• Find the pro (production) version number on root.cern.ch
• Get the source.tar.gz file at http://root.cern.ch/download/root_v*****.source.tar.gz

gzip -dc root_v5.34.14.source.tar.gz | tar -xf -
cd root*
./configure --all --with-gsl-incdir="/usr/local/include" --with-gsl-libdir="/usr/local/lib"
make -j N

where N is the number of CPU cores on your machine (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu cores')

• For Ubuntu 14.04 run: sudo mkdir /usr/include/freetype && sudo cp /usr/include/freetype2/freetype.h /usr/include/freetype/freetype.h