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.