I am not an expert on these things but this is what I did to get my Geant4 (version 10.0) running up on Ubuntu -13.04. This is more for my reference though I think some of you might find this useful (for the rest - one can always go to Geant4 website). I already have all the software required to build Geant4 installed on my system. I also have Qt4 (Qt4 headers and libraries, OpenGL or MesaGL headers and libraries) and X11 headers and libraries to build optional components.
- Make a directory in your home folder where you will store the source files$ mkdir ~/geant4
- Go to the Geant4 download area and download the source file in Linux tar format and save it in the newly created directory( "geant4" ). Do
$ tar -zxvf geant4.10.00.tar.gz
$ ls
geant4.10.00 geant4.10.00.tar.gz - Make a build directory and enter
$ mkdir geant4.10.00-build
$ ls
geant4.10.00 geant4.10.00-build geant4.10.00.tar.gz
$ cd geant4.10.00-build - Before building lets make sure where the installation is going to reside. In my case I want it in "/usr/local/Geant4", so I have made a directory "Geant4" under /usr/local for the same.
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/Geant4 - We will perform the build of Geant4 using cmake
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/Geant4.10/ ../geant4.10.00 - I wanted few more additional build options for my usage (Please look at other build options before proceeding. You can choose the options depending on your application),
$ cmake -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON -DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON ../geant4.10.00 - To run the build, simply execute make in the build directory:$ make -j4
where 4 is the number of processor I have (you can just say make and leave it at that) - After the build is complete, do make install
$ sudo make install
(sudo is not necessary if one is not installing it /usr/local)
If everything goes fine then you should have a working geant4 installation on your PC/notebook.
