Available here, are Ubuntu GNU/Linux packages of ROOT, Globus, and other similar packages. They are available for i386, and amd64.

If anyone builds these packages for other archictures or newer version of ROOT, or other versions of Ubuntu, please post them on some publicly available web-site/ftp-server/... and send the link to me (cholm at nbi dot dk) and I'll gladly post them here. Instructions for rebuilding can be found here.

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To install, please add the line

              deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/ubuntu gutsy main contrib
            

to your APT sources (e.g., /etc/apt/sources.list, or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/root.list). Then you need to update the package lists, and install ROOT

              sudo apt-get update
              sudo apt-get install root-system
            

If apt-get or aptitude complains to the effect that a signature couldn't be verified, you will need to feed it my GPG public key:

              gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 6620D4F5
              gpg --export 6620D4F5 | apt-key add -
            

Debian users should look here