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= MG5+Delphes Tutorial - Bologna June 2016 =

== Pre-requisites ==

To successfully build Delphes the following prerequisite packages should be installed:

- gcc/tcl:

For linux users gcc/tcl should be already installed. For Mac users you should install XCode.

- ROOT:

can be downloaded from https://root.cern.ch/downloading-root
Go on latest release, and download a version under "Binary distributions".

Once it is installed, type:

source [path_to_installation]/root/bin/thisroot.sh

The simply type in a terminal:

echo $ROOTSYS

If a path is shown then root is properly installed.