Hi Allister, Allister Levi Sanchez wrote: > > I'm trying to install ROOT (using binary) on a Pentium II 233 with Linux > Mandrake 5.3.b Also tried with RHL 5.2 and 6.0 ... In addition to Rene's advice, you have two other options as well. You can install RPMs (probably the easiest thing to do), or you can build the Autoconfed version of ROOT (also an extremely easy and trivial thing to do). Since you are running an x86 with RPM installed, you could just do the following: $ rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/libstdc++-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm This will install the correct C++ runtime which ROOT needs. Note the "ivh" flags to ROOT - don't try the "Uvh" flags, which you are probably use to (RPM won't let you use "Uvh" anyway). If you "cut and paste" the commands out of this e-mail, then you should be fine. Then install ROOT: $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-2.21.08.04-1.i386.rpm This will be enough for you to use ROOT (and note that this time you do use the "Uvh" flags). However, if you want to compile your own C++ code (e.g. to make your own shared libraries) instead of just using CINT (ROOT's C/C++ interpreter), then you must have egcs >= 1.1 installed as well. I don't know which version of egcs that Mandrake 5.3.b ship with, but you can easily find out with the command `rpm -q egcs'. If you have anything less then egcs 1.1, then you will have to install a newer egcs as well. This is easy: $ rpm -e egcs-objc $ rpm -e egcs-g77 $ rpm -e egcs-c++ $ rpm -e egcs $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/egcs-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/egcs-c++-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/egcs-g77-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/egcs-objc-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm $ rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/egcs/libstdc++-devel-1.1.2-1.i386.rpm Installing the ROOT RPMs (and the egcs RPMs if you have to) should take you only a few minutes. However, if you want to compile ROOT yourself (i.e. if you wanted to keep your existing egcs installation intact) then you may want to try my Autoconfed version of ROOT at ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/langston/root/root-2.21.08.tar.gz. Building this version will take you about 30 minutes. The ROOT source code in this package has not been changed from what you get from ftp://root.cern.ch/root/ - it is still the vanilla version of ROOT v. 2.21.08. The only difference is that it has been repackaged in the GNU style, i.e. with Autoconf, Automake and Libtool. It builds just like you would expect any standard GNU package to build, i.e. with the following 4 commands: $ ./configure $ make $ make check $ make install The advantage of this is that you do not need to install the binary version of ROOT first, i.e. ROOT builds directly from the source code. For more information, you can read the announcement of this package from the RootTalk Digest at http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/0699.html It is important to note that this software is not yet officially supported by the ROOT Team. However, they are aware of my efforts to add GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool support to ROOT. This package should be considered beta, as it has not seen widespread testing outside of SLAC. -- Matthew D. Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
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