[ROOT] 3.00.01 RPMS available for RedHat Linux 6.1 Intel

From: Matthew D. Langston (langston@SLAC.stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 01:58:13 MET


RPMS of ROOT 3.00.01 (released 2000.12.28) are available for RedHat
Linux 6.1 Intel at ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/.

The two RPMS that you will want to download were built with the newer
g++ from gcc 2.95.2:

     root-gcc-c++-2.95.2-3.00.01-1.i386.rpm
     root-gcc-c++-2.95.2-examples-3.00.01-1.i386.rpm

NOTES:

  1) The 3.00.01 RPMs have True Type font support compiled in, and come
     with the fonts you need, so everything should work "out of the
     box".

  2) This release of ROOT contains my "switch_root" utility, which lets
     the user easily switch between multiple versions of ROOT installed
     on their system.  To run it, just type "switch_root".

  3) If you want a version of ROOT that works with the default g++ that
     comes with RedHat 6.1 (e.g. egcs-2.91.66, otherwise known as
     egcs-1.1.2), then just download the source RPM and have rpm do the
     rebuild for you as follows:

      $ rpm --rebuild root-gcc-c++-2.95.2-3.00.01-1.src.rpm

     If you want OpenGL support compiled into your ROOT, then you should
     download and install the Mesa RPMS as well (available at the same
     location where you downloaded the ROOT RPMS).

  4) You can have multiple installations of the same version of ROOT, as
     well as multiple installations of different versions of ROOT,
     installed on the same machine.  Just do an rpm install (e.g. use
     the "-i" flag) instead of an rpm upgrade (e.g. the "-U" flag).

     This functionality allows you to test out a newer version of ROOT
     while still keeping an older version around, as well as allowing
     you to use multiple (and often times incompatible) C++ compilers.

--
Matthew D. Langston
SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
2001.01.02



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