Re: $ROOTSYS issues for ubuntu package

Hi Justin,

$ROOTSYS should be the folder where you have unpacked root, i.e /home/(you)/root/ , not the root directory.

Will

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Justin Findlay <jfindlay_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been trying out using the ubuntu package for ROOT and I've found
> encountered a few problems with it. Unfortunately, the ubuntu package
> as far as I can tell does not specify how the $ROOTSYS variable should
> be set. ROOTSYS=/ is the natural choice, but then I get problems like
> this:
>
> Error in <TPluginManager::FindHandler>: Cannot find plugin handler for
> TVirtualStreamerInfo! Does $ROOTSYS/etc/plugins/TVirtualStreamerInfo
> exist?
>
> TVirtualStreamerInfo does exist, but it is located in
> $ROOTSYS/etc/root/plugins, not $ROOTSYS/etc/plugins. Is this a bug?
> Should ROOT be willing to check $ROOTSYS/etc/root as well as
> $ROOTSYS/etc, or should I contact the package maintainer and ask him
> to move all the contents of /etc/root into /etc?
>
>
> Justin
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 11 2010 - 19:20:47 CET