RPMS of ROOT 2.25.01 (released 2000.08.08) 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++-2.95.2-2.25.01-1.i386.rpm
root-gcc-c++-2.95.2-examples-2.25.01-1.i386.rpm
NOTES:
1) All of the RPMs beginning with ROOT 2.25.01 and later 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++-2.95.2-2.25.01-1.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
2000.08.12
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