Geant4 10.6 on CentOS 7 not able to install

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Dear All,
I have been trying to install Geant4 10.6 on CentOS 7 for a couple of days and I don’t know what else to try. I will try to describe everything I have tried.
I installed CentOS 7 (Core) the GNOME Desktop. After this all the problems started since the “Development Tools” group doesn’t meet the requirements of gcc 4.9.3 or higher. Because of this, I have installed the devtoolset-8 in the following way.

    yum update -y
    yum -y install centos-release-scl
    yum install devtoolset-8
    scl enable devtoolset-8 bash

I installed cmake 3.12.3 as follows:

wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.12/cmake-3.12.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf cmake-3.*
cd cmake-3.*
./bootstrap
make -j4
make install

After this, I downloaded geant4.10.06.tar.gz, did the untar, created the geant4.10.6-build folder and tried the following configuration.

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/work/Documents/Geant4/geant4.10.06-install -DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATA=ON -DGEANT4_USE_GDML=ON -DGEANT4_USE_QT=ON -DGEANT4_USE_XM=ON -DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL_X11=ON -DGEANT4_USE_SYSTEM_CLHEP=OFF ../geant4.10.06

I need this specific configuration to run Allpix2 software later. After that, I got quite a few issues with missing libraries and I had to install the following:

yum install xerces-c xerces-c-devel
yum install qt5-qtbase-devel
yum install expat
yum install expat-devel
yum install libXmu-devel
yum install motif
yum install openmotif-devel

After all this (which implied a painful online search) the configuration worked. However, after the configuration, the directory geant4.10.06-install is not created and I also got the following error

CMake Error at /home/work/Documents/Geant4/geant4.10.06-build/Externals/G4ENSDFSTATE-2.2/src/G4ENSDFSTATE-stamp/download-G4ENSDFSTATE.cmake:159 (message):
Each download failed!

error: downloading 'https://cern.ch/geant4-data/datasets/G4ENSDFSTATE.2.2.tar.gz' failed
     status_code: 1
     status_string: "Unsupported protocol"
     log:
     --- LOG BEGIN ---
     Protocol "https" not supported or disabled in libcurl

Closing connection -1

I guess I am doing quite a few wrong things but at the same time, I was wondering why the process is so painful. To summarize, I need help to go through the installation process.

Thanks in advance,
Arturo

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The “Unsupported protocol” error is due, IIRC, to cmake being built with its builtin version of libcurl, which doesn’t support SSL. I can’t recall the invocation to use the system libcurl, but running CMake’s bootstrap --help should list this.

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. In the end, I dropped it and decided to install 10.05.
Regards,
Arturo