Quick reference

Maintained by: the ROOT team and collaborators

Where to get help: the ROOT forum

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Latest images

• latest -> 6.30.04-ubuntu22.04

Archive

• 6.30.04-ubuntu22.04
• 6.30.02-ubuntu22.04, 6.28.12-ubuntu22.04, 6.28.10-ubuntu22.04, 6.28.04-ubuntu22.04, 6.28.00-ubuntu22.04, 6.26.14-ubuntu22.04, 6.26.10-ubuntu22.04, 6.26.06-ubuntu22.04, 6.26.04-ubuntu22.04, 6.26.02-ubuntu22.04
• 6.26.14-ubuntu20.04, 6.26.02-ubuntu20.04, 6.26.00-ubuntu20.04, 6.24.06-ubuntu20.04, 6.24.02-ubuntu20.04, 6.24.00-ubuntu20.04, 6.22.08-ubuntu20.04, 6.22.06-ubuntu20.04, 6.22.02-ubuntu20.04, 6.22.00-ubuntu20.04, 6.20.08-ubuntu20.04
• 6.30.02-conda, 6.28.10-conda, 6.28.04-conda,6.26.10-conda, 6.26.06-conda, 6.26.04-conda, 6.26.00-conda, 6.24.06-conda, 6.24.02-conda, 6.24.00-conda, 6.22.08-conda, 6.22.06-conda, 6.22.02-conda, 6.22.00-conda
• 6.30.02-alma9
• 6.28.04-arch,6.26.10-arch, 6.26.04-arch, 6.26.00-arch, 6.24.06-arch, 6.24.02-arch, 6.24.00-arch, 6.22.06-arch, 6.22.02-arch, 6.22.00-arch, 6.20.06-arch
• 6.28.04-fedora37
• 6.26.10-fedora36
• 6.26.06-fedora35, 6.26.02-fedora35, 6.24.06-fedora35
• 6.22.08-fedora34
• 6.22.06-fedora33
• 6.22.02-fedora32, 6.22.00-fedora32, 6.20.06-fedora32
• 6.24.06-centos7, 6.22.08-centos7, 6.22.02-centos7, 6.22.00-centos7

Supported C++ standards

It is important to compile ROOT applications with the same C++ standard as ROOT itself was compiled with. Different images provide ROOT installations built with different C++ standards. Here is a breakdown by tag:

• latest, ubuntu22.04: ROOT is built with C++17
• ubuntu22.04 (starting from ROOT 6.24): C++14
• arch, conda, fedora34, fedora35, fedora36, `fedora37 : C++17
• fedora32, fedora33: C++14
• ubuntu20.04 (up to ROOT 6.22), centos7: C++11

Getting started

The ROOT team provides several Docker images. In order to run containers, you must have Docker installed. You can start a container by running the following command in your terminal which will start the latest stable release of ROOT:

docker run --rm -it rootproject/root

Note that the --rm flag tells Docker to remove the container, together with its data, once it is shut down. In order to persist data, it is recommended to mount a directory on the container. For example, to mount your home directory on Linux and Mac, run:

docker run --rm -it -v ~:/userhome --user $(id -u) rootproject/root

On Windows, you have to specify the full path to your user directory:

docker run --rm -it -v C:\\Users\\Username:/userhome rootproject/root

The -v option tells Docker to mount the home directory (~) to /userhome in the container. --user $(id -u) signs us in with the same userid as in the host in order to allow reading/writing to the mounted directory. This is not necessary on Windows. Mac and Windows users does however have to mark the drives or areas they want to mount as shared in the Docker application under settings.

Configuring Docker for Windows Shared Drives / Volume Mounting with AD More about mounting host directories in the container.

Examples

See GitHub for example Dockerfiles.

Reproducibility of these images

Even though for each image we link to the Dockerfile that produced it, in several cases running that same exact Dockerfile will not result in an image identical to the one we offer. Sometimes it will even result in an image with a more recent ROOT version: this is the case for images based on rolling Linux distributions such as Arch, for example.

The *_from_source recipes, on the other hand, are expected to be fully reproducible.