First Steps: Checking the ROOT installation

If typing:- root does not start ROOT, check the following:-
  1. Ask your local MINOS Mentor, or system manager, if ROOT has been installed. If not, and you cannot persuade anyone else to do, you will have to. Actually it is very simple as the ROOT team provide binaries as gzipped tar files for most platforms:-
    1. Go to the ROOT Home Page and from there click on "(download latest version)" phrase of the "Status & Availability" line.
    2. Select the appropriate version and transfer it.
    3. Follow the instructions provided to unzip, untar and install.
  2. Check that the ROOT environmental variable ROOTSYS is defined. This should contain the top level ROOT directory.
  3. Check that the ROOT binary directory:- $ROOTSYS/bin is included in your PATH environmental variable.
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