ROOT - A data analysis framework. ROOT provides a set of frameworks with the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in an efficient way. It includes specialized storage methods such as histograms, curve fitting, function evaluation, minimization, graphics, visualization classes; the C++ interpreter cling for fast prototyping; and powerful parallel processing support. It comes with a lot of different options for compilation. And it seems impossible to stress all of them in this one script. Therefore the potential user is strongly advised to check the cmake command arguments. Compilation takes quite a while, thus consider to build ROOT like that: # MAKEFLAGS=-j5 ./root.SlackBuild REQUIREMENTS: gl2ps libAfterImage numpy3 tbb ftgl NOTE: ROOT's python TMVA requires numpy3 built over blas.