Virender Ranga

This guide is for installation of geant4.10.04 in ubuntu 18.04. However, it should work for all versions of geant4.

1. Update the package lists

    sudo apt-get update     #Update the package lists
       
    #Install pre-requisites
    sudo apt-get install cmake gcc g++ expat libexpat1-dev default-jre default-jdk qt4-default cmake-qt-gui mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev
       
    #Download the latest geant4 source code from geant4 website
    wget "http://cern.ch/geant4-data/releases/geant4.10.04.tar.gz"
       
    #Extract the source code
    tar -zxvf geant4.10.04.tar.gz
       
    #Make a build folder and change to that folder
    mkdir geant4build
    cd geant4build
       
    #Configure the installation
    cmake -DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON ../geant4.10.04
       
    #Install geant4 
    make -j4 #4 is the number of logical processors in my CPU. Change according to your CPU.    
    make install
   

Congratulations…Geant4 is now installed.

Please email me if you find any error.

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