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buddhasystem committed Mar 15, 2024
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mentions cmake -- although the latter is not explicitly invoked, and you only need to run `configure` and `make`.
Read the web page carefully.

On some flavors of Linux, e.g. _Rocky_, care must be taken to ensure the `icu` package is correctly installed.
It appears to happen transparently on Debian.

### Qt

The Qt installation procedure has evolved over the years. Using the GUI installer
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sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt-get install qtdeclarative5-dev
```

Recent versions of Geant may require one more dependency:
```bash
# On Debian platforms
sudo apt-get install -y qt3d5-dev
```

Running Geant4 applications equipped with GUI based on the Qt package in the WSL2 environment
may result in a blank graphic window. One solution to that is to unset an enironment variable:

```bash
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=
```



### libxmu

```bash
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