Install Geant4 on Ubuntu 14.04: Packages needed beforehand

 Packaged need on Ubuntu 14.04 before installing Geant4

After some failed attempts of intalling Geant4 on windows 7, I though I would give it a try on Ubuntu.

 Ubuntu on Windows 7:

For that I first installed Virtual Box on windows 7.
Inside Virtual box I installed Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu Packages list for Geant4:

Most of these packages were installed through Synaptic package manager on Ubuntu14.04, because it handles the dependencies/installation in a better way. If not, then from apt-get.

1. g++-4.9

2. Make

3. Cmake-2.8

4. Xerces-c++

5. Opengl

6. Qt4.8

7. motif UI

8. x11

9. libxmu-dev

10. libxmu-header

Installation procedure

The detailed procedure is very well described in the Geant4 installation manual. Here, I assume that you already have gone through it or have it open alongside. Also, that you have already downloaded the Source code folder and all the Data files.

Before I start installation, this is the folder structure created as below, as a cleaner way of working.

Geant4 (Parent folder created by me. Inside this I placed everything related to Geant4)

|--- geant4_10_01_p02-Source (This is the unzipped source code folder renamed)

|--- geant4_10_01_p02-Install (Created by me. This will contain the Geant4 install)

|--- geant4_10_01_p02-Data (Created by me. This will contain all the Geant4 Data you have downloaded and unzipped)

|--- geant4_10_01_p02-Build (Created by me. This will contain the Geant4 build)

|--- geant4_10_01_p02-WorkDir (Created by me. This will contain all of my work examples)

Instructions:

cd Geant4/geant4.10.01.p02-Build/

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path/to/geant4.10.01.p02-Install -DGEANT4_USE_SYSTEM_EXPAT=OFF -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_RAYTRACER_X11=ON -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATADIR=path/to/geant4.10.01.p02-Data path/to/geant4.10.01.p02-Source

make -j2

make install

Done!