Geant4 installation manual

Geant4 Installation Guide Documentation, Release Macports MacPortssupplies aport for Geant4which may be installed with $ sudo port install geant4 Linux System Package Managers Several Linux distributions provide Geant4 through their system package managers, either directly or through com-munity repositories. Geant4 uses CMake to configure a build system for compiling and installing the toolkit headers, libraries and sup-port tools. This document covers the basics of using CMake to build and install Geant4 together with an overview of the most commonly used advanced features. We also provide a basic overview of how to build an application that uses Geant4. First, we must create a place to put the GEANT4 installation. The recommended directory structure is to put GEANT4 in $HOME/geant4/geant/so that other things can be put in $HOME/geant4/. cd $HOME mkdir geant4 cd geant4 To get the source of GEANT4, goto the GEANT4 web-site [G4Web]. Click on ‘Download’ and choose the GNU tar source file.

Installing Geant4. You can begin installing Geant4 by downloading the code. (link is external) from the distribution page. Next, consult the Installation Guide. (link is external) for the instructions required to set up Geant4 in your computing environment. Geant4 Installation Guide Documentation, Release Macports MacPortssupplies aport for Geant4which may be installed with $ sudo port install geant4 Linux System Package Managers Several Linux distributions provide Geant4 through their system package managers, either directly or through com-munity repositories. GEANT4_INSTALL_DATA. You will need CMake v or newer + internet connection. To use visualization, you will also need to check GEANT4_USE_OPENGL_WIN You can also change the installation destination by clicking on the path next to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. As an example, we will chose C:/Users/db68/Documents/geant4/geaninstall.

In later exercises you will work through the code and understand what is going on in much more detail. Installing Geant4. We have written explicit instructions. Installation guide for the CLHEP and Geant4 packages on a linux machine running The latest version at the time when these instructions were written was. Important information on how to install and use nptool is given here. of C++ programming is needed, and experience with Root and Geant4 may help.