GEANT 4 is a particle physics simulation software developed by CERN. This paper introduces the installation process of GEANT 4.10.04 on Ubuntu 18.04.
Explain:
- Use the default bash
- Assume the installation directory is / projects/soft/ext
Pre software installation:
Install the software package required by ROOT (see another blog: Install CERN's ROOT software on Ubuntu )Based on, the following packages are recommended:
libxerces-c-dev libmotif-dev libglw1-mesa-dev inventor-dev opticalraytracer libpythia8-dev pythia8-doc-html pythia8-doc-worksheet pythia8-examples
Other software recommended for installation
vim vim-doc vim-scripts emacs colordiff lftp dkms build-essential libzlcore-dev libxmu-dev
Prepare source file:
cd /projects/soft/ext mkdir sources cd sources <download geant4.10.04.p02.tar.gz>([Geant4 Download address](http://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download)Direct download) tar -zxvf geant4.10.04.p02.tar.gz cd ../ mkdir G4data cd G4data <download data files>([Geant4data Download address](http://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download)Direct download)
These data files include:
G4ABLA.3.0.tar.gz G4NEUTRONXS.1.4.tar.gz G4SAIDDATA.1.1.tar.gz G4EMLOW.6.35.tar.gz G4PhotonEvaporation.3.0.tar.gz RealSurface.1.0.tar.gz G4ENSDFSTATE.1.0.tar.gz G4PII.1.3.tar.gz G4NDL.4.4.tar.gz G4RadioactiveDecay.4.0.tar.gz
Extract these files:
for i in `ls *.gz` ; do tar -zxvf $i ; done
Compilation and installation
cd /projects/soft/ext/sources mkdir build-geant4.10.04.p02 cd build-geant4.10.04.p02 cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/projects/soft/ext/geant4.10.04.p02-install -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATADIR=/projects/soft/ext/G4data -DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON -DGEANT4_USE_GDML=ON -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_XM=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_INVENTOR=OFF -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=ON ../geant4.10.04.p02 make -j2 make install
Environment settings
source /projects/soft/ext/geant4.10.04.p02-install/bin/geant4.sh
Or put it in. bashrc:
cat /projects/soft/ext/geant4.10.04.p02-install/bin/geant4.sh ~/.bashrc
Or open. / bashrc and add source /projects/soft/ext/geant4.10.04.p02-install/bin/geant4.sh at the end
Compile example
mkdir -p $HOME/workdir/geant4 cd $HOME/workdir/geant4 cp -r /projects/soft/ext/geant4.10.04.p02-install/share/Geant4-10.0.4/examples . mkdir build-B1 cd build-B1 cmake ../examples/basic/B1 make ./exampleB1
If the following screen appears, the installation is successful 