Installing ROOT on Mac OS X

• Check your compiler version: gcc -v
• Download the appropriate precombiled binaries from the ROOT website
  • List of Linux flavors
• tar xvfz rootv5.22.00.Linux-your_version.tar.gz
• Assuming you extracted root in your home directory, set these variables:
• export ROOTSYS=~/root
• export PATH=$PATH:$ROOTSYS/bin
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ROOTSYS/lib
• Start root interpreter (cint): root