How To Install root on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install root on CentOS 8.
What is root
The ROOT system provides a set of object oriented frameworks with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in a very efficient way. Having the data defined as a set of objects, specialized storage methods are used to get direct access to the separate attributes of the selected objects, without having to touch the bulk of the data. Included are histogramming methods in an arbitrary number of dimensions, curve fitting, function evaluation, minimization, graphics and visualization classes to allow the easy setup of an analysis system that can query and process the data interactively or in batch mode, as well as a general parallel processing framework, PROOF, that can considerably speed up an analysis. Thanks to the built-in C++ interpreter cling, the command, the scripting and the programming language are all C++. The interpreter allows for fast prototyping of the macros since it removes the, time consuming, compile/link cycle. It also provides a good environment to learn C++. If more performance is needed the interactively developed macros can be compiled using a C++ compiler via a machine independent transparent compiler interface called ACliC. The system has been designed in such a way that it can query its databases in parallel on clusters of workstations or many-core machines. ROOT is an open system that can be dynamically extended by linking external libraries. This makes ROOT a premier platform on which to build data acquisition, simulation and data analysis systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install root on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install root.
Install root on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install root using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install root
Install root on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install root using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install root
How To Uninstall root on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the root package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove root
root Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/hadd
/usr/bin/root
/usr/bin/root.exe
/usr/bin/rootn.exe
/usr/bin/roots
/usr/bin/roots.exe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/dda25d00bd02b590ffc3185af4f7e43c3bc22a
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/aa8c7c10dec4ce3a3b1ea49e32682fedd66dc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/93985fe0f24e21e5e4310c31596efcc78ab87e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/b3b253047a0a02ab2c87e3e9c47f47acdb85ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/896e3a4cd8c6dd83bc8d1d7c378b943350aab4
/usr/share/applications/root.desktop
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/root
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/root/root-help.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/root/root-help.elc
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/root.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-root.png
/usr/share/man/man1/hadd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/root.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/root.exe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rootn.exe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/roots.exe.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/root.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install root on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.