Ok, thank you both for the responses.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> What does "Ubuntu 16.04" have to do with a Scientific Linux
> enrironment? "Scientific Linux" is a particular rebuild of Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, supported by CERN. I'm afraid you should ask in
> Ubuntu mailing lists. Ubuntu has a very particular packaging and
> referencing technique for installing libraries.
>
> libintl is part of the "gettext" packages in Scientific Linux, I
> assume that for Ubuntu you'd want to instlal the related libraries and
> development toolkit to be able to compile it into a new application.
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Christopher Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am installing ROOT6.11.02 on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine (Ubuntu 16.04.2
> LTS
> > (GNU/Linux 4.8.0-58-generic x86_64).  When I try to compile a C++ macro
> > using this release of ROOT, I get the following error:
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lImt
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > This means that the compiler cannot find the -lImt directory.  Upon
> > checking, the 'libImt.so' file was absent from the lib/ directory.  The
> > documentation says the the install should occur with Imt by default, but
> I
> > am unsure what happened.
> >
> > Any help that someone can give me with this issue is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
>