Using the CF-Auto-Root file by XDA developer Chainfire, you can root the European variant of Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F), which recently received Android 5.0 Lollipop stock firmware upgrade with build ...

Users will have to download the appropriate CF-Auto-Root package for their Galaxy S5 models. Users can check the model number by going to Settings > About phone > Model number.

Late last week Chainfire posted the Galaxy S5 root instructions, and made the Galaxy S5 easy root download available as part of CF-Root, though there is an important restriction right now.

How to root Galaxy Note 3 SM-N900 on Android 5.0 Lollipop using CF-Auto-Root Step-1: Extract the downloaded root package on the computer to get a file with .tar.md5 extension ...

In order to root the Galaxy S5, running on Android 4.4.2 KitKat, users will have to flash the CF-Auto-Root file in the smartphone.