ROOT - A data analysis framework. ROOT is a data analysis framework used mostly, but not limited to, high energy physics. It was written in C++ by the techs at CERN to explore the benefits of object oriented programming in physics data analysis. It consists of libraries, CINT or cling interpreter for C/C++, plotting interface and powerful parellel processing support. It is the preferred choice in many laboratories. 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 configure script. The script was written to suit basic offline data analysis with possible GSL and FFTW support with full documentation and tutorials. It should be more than enough for normal user. It has 2 optional dependencies: GSL (accessible from SlackBuilds) and fftw (part of the official Slackware packages). Script has also mathmore support, for which one needs to GSL. Compilation takes quite a while. To steer the SlackBuild script, run it with these variables: GSL=yes(no) MATHMORE=yes(no) FFTW=yes(no) QT=yes(no) ./root.SlackBuild where the values in brackets are the default values that will be used unless specified otherwise. Note that by default this script will install things in /usr/ROOT: it will add /usr/ROOT/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX to /etc/ld.so.conf and a profile.d script to set the correct PATHs.