CERN ROOT

The CERN laboratory in Europe has a graphical analysis package called ROOT. It is written in C++, which allows the user to analyze data in an object-oriented way.

Build instructions

Getting the source code

  1. Go to the CERN ROOT website: https://root.cern.ch/
  2. Click on the Download link.
  3. Select the link for the latest version.
  4. Download the gzipped tarball of the source distribution to your user account.

Setting up the installation directory

In general, the source code will be in a general location like /usr/local/bin/ so that all users will have access to it.

Compiling the software

The instructions from CERN give you many options as to how to build the software. It should be done as a fixed location install.

Check that the dependency software is installed. If there is anything missing, install it. With CentOS, you can use yum install {package name}.

You can check to see what prerequisites packages are required here: https://root.cern.ch/build-prerequisites