ROOT 6

Basic information

• Official Website: https://root.cern/

• Install page: https://root.cern/install/

• Installed on: APOLO II

Tested on (Requirements)

• OS base: Rocky Linux 8.5 (x86_64) \(\boldsymbol{\ge}\) 8

• Compiler GCC 9.3.0

Installation

1. First of all, we need to load the following module for the compilation

   $ module load python/3.9_miniconda-4.10.3
   

2. Then, we create a conda environment

   $ conda config --set channel_priority strict
   $ conda create -c conda-forge --name <my-environment> root
   

Note

Replace <my-environment> for a proper name for the environment.

1. Then, we activate the environment in order to use ROOT

   $ conda activate <my-environment>
   

2. Now we are ready to use ROOT.

   $ root
   

Note

Always that we want to use ROOT, we must activate the environment.

Author:

• Juan Manuel Gómez <jmgomezp@eafit.edu.co>