Download and install XMing: XMing
Open powershell with admin priveldges:
- Hit windows button and search for power shell
- Right click icon and hit run as admin
Run the following command in powershell to enable subsystems:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Download and install Ubuntu from the microsoft store: Microsoft Stort: Ubuntu
Once installed, open up Ubuntu (should say initializiing).
The easiest way to download ROOT is to use the following command:
wget https://root.cern/download/root_v6.16.00.Linux-ubuntu18-x86_64-gcc7.3.tar.gz
The above command uses wget, if the console prints, "command not found." You need to install it using:
sudo apt-get install wget
Note the above command gets version 6.16 of root, if you want the latest version go to: CERN ROOT: Latest
Once you have the ROOT tarball downloaded, you need to install all the dependencies for root by running the following:
sudo apt-get install git dpkg-dev cmake g++ gcc binutils libx11-dev libxpm-dev \
libxft-dev libxext-dev libtiff-dev
Warning There is a missing depencey; I don't know what it is though.
Untar the tar.gz file by using the command:
tar -xvf root_v6.16.00.Linux-ubuntu18-x86_64-gcc7.3.tar.gz
Explaination of tar: The -x stands for extract, the -v for verbose and -f stands for file. Tar is an interesting comparizon to a zip file. A tar file alone can turn 100 files into 1, but does not compress it at all. A zip file does the same thing but also compresses it. The tar's compression comes after it is contained which is the .gz extension, using DEFLATE compression which is the same compression used by zip.
Now you have your root extracted into the root/ folder of your current working directory.
To link it to your terminal use the command:
echo "source $(pwd)/root/bin/thisroot.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
To link XMing to ubuntu's ROOT use the command:
echo "export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0" >> ~/.bashrc
To actiavate your terminal with the newly installed software, use the command:
source ~/.bashrc
Then to run ROOT:
root -l
Then run this command IN ROOT:
TCanvas c;
Download and install XQuartz: XQuartz
(Optional) Find the latest download link for ROOT and copy the url: CERN ROOT: Latest
Download ROOT using this command:
wget https://root.cern/download/root_v6.16.00.macosx64-10.14-clang100.tar.gz
Extract the recently downloaded tarball using:
tar -xvf root_v6.16.00.macosx64-10.14-clang100.tar.gz
Then run this to link your terminal with root:
echo "source $(pwd)/root/bin/thisroot.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
Run this to activate your terminal session:
source ~/.bashrc
Then run root using:
root -l
Once in root run this command to open up a window:
TCanvas c;