Installation Guide


Chapter 1. Installation Introduction

This section describes the global computing environment required for installing the Geant4 toolkit. To set up your specific computing environment for Geant4, refer to Section 2 of this Guide. .......

Chapter 2. Installation Procedures

Before installing Geant4, the required software listed in section 1.2 (and 1.3 in the case of graphics drivers) of this Installation Guide must already be installed on your system.

In this section, a short tutorial on how to install the toolkit's kernel libraries is given. The installation of the Geant4 kernel libraries and ..............

Using the Configure Script

A shell script is provided for building the libraries and to allow easy installation in a specified area. .....

  • the compiler to be used
  • the path where the Geant4 toolkit is to be installed ($G4INSTALL)
  • definition of installation directory paths (optional)
  • .......

Configuring the Environment to Use Geant4

Once libraries have been installed, the user's environment must be correctly set up for the usage of the Geant4 toolkit. ......

To generate the configuration scripts, the user should run Configure placed in the installation area, as follows:

 > $G4INSTALL/Configure

.......

Installing Geant4 Manually

Before proceeding with the installation, some key environment variables must be defined in your user environment in order to specify where all ......