averbyts/fastjet

Project ID: 27759

Description

This repository contains the Monte Carlo Event Generators used in High Energy Physics and related tools. The packages for EL7 are compiled with the maximal set of features. Some technical details are given below.

Exceptions in dependencies for El7:

The support of MCFM for SHERPA-MC is in progress
The support of Delphes for SHERPA-MC is disabled, the interface is defunct
The OpenLoops is compilled with limited set of processes

Exceptions in dependencies for El8: same as for EL7, plus

The support of cernlib for SHERPA-MC is in progress
cernlib is not build/in progress

Newer versions of software for EL7 in progress:

tmdlib 1.0.7+ has huge source tarballs
recola

Packages with large amount of added codes:

rapgap -- added support for Rivet/HepMC3
cascade -- added support for Rivet/HepMC3
ThePEG -- added support for HepMC3
Rivet -- bugfixes for HepMC3 support
fjcontrib -- adde compilation of shared libraries
TheP8I -- is a subset of older ThePEG codes
lhapdf-sets-Herwig -- a technical packages that provides a set of PDF needed to build Herwig
lhapdf-sets-whizard -- a technical packages that provides a set of PDF needed to build whizard

Packages with offline source codes:

golem95 -- the online sources were lost during the migration of hepforge
cernlib

Installation Instructions

To use the repository with RHEL7/CentOS7/etc. with root privilegies

yum install yum-plugin-copr

yum copr enable averbyts/fastjet

Alternatively you can also download a repo file and place it to /etc/yum.repos.d/

Then the packages can be installed with a standard yum command, e.g.

yum install Herwig

In case you don't have root privileges you still can use this repository in an automatic way.

Copy yum configuration file from the system directory somewhere

cp /etc/yum.conf ./myyum.conf

Get the .repo file for this repository

wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/averbyts/fastjet/repo/epel-7/averbyts-fastjet-epel-7.repo

Add the lines from averbyts-fastjet-epel-7.repo to the to the end of the myyum.conf:

cat averbyts-fastjet-epel-7.repo >> myyum.conf

Download the needed packages with a standard yumdownloader command

yumdownloader --resolve --downloadonly --config=./myyum.conf --downloaddir=/my/download/directory SHERPA-MC The dependencies will be downloaded as well.