commandsToInstallGeant4CentOS7

This is a step by step tutorial of installation of GEANT 4 10.6 in a CentOS 7 recently installed (April 2020).

Commands to get the Geant4

$ ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number

$ yum -y update

$ sudo yum install centos-release-scl

$ sudo yum install devtoolset-7

$ scl enable devtoolset-7 bash 

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.3.tar.gz

$ tar xvf make-4.3.tar.gz

$ cd make-4.3/

$ ./configure

$ make

$ make install

$ sudo yum install expat

$ sudo yum install expat-devel

$ sudo yum install zlib

$ sudo yum install zlib-devel

$ sudo yum -y install bzip2

$ sudo yum install xerces-c 

$ sudo yum install xerces-c-devel

$ sudo yum install motif

$ sudo yum install openmotif-devel

$ sudo yum install qt5-qtbase-devel

$ sudo yum install libXmu

$ sudo yum install libX11-devel

$ sudo yum install freeglut-devel

Download the source at https://geant4.web.cern.ch/support/download_archive - Geant4 10.5 (or 10.6 if you want, but remember to replace 5 with 6 in the following commands) - GNU or Linux tar format (32.8Mb, 34413415 bytes). Create a directory where to put the downloaded source :

$ mkdir geant4

Put your downloaded source there and then in your terminal : 

$ cd geant4

$ tar xvf geant4.10.05.p01.tar.gz

$ mkdir geant4.10.05-build

$ cd geant4.10.05-build

$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/[insert-here-your-user-name]/geant4/geant4.10.05-install /home/[insert-here-your-user-name]/geant4/geant4.10.05.p01

$ cmake -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON .

$ cmake -DGEANT4_USE_GDML=ON .

$ cmake -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON .

$ cmake -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON .

$ cmake -DGEANT4_USE_XM=ON .

$ cmake -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON .

$ make -jN

$ make install

### Postinstall Setup

Assuming you are at /home/[insert-here-your-user-name]/geant4/geant4.10.05-install/bin, you can configure your Geant4 to run your applications with (you have to do it every time you open a new terminal) :

$ . geant4.sh

Last test : April 2020.