averbyts/HEPrpms

Description

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

Exceptions in dependencies and features for El8:

• The support of Delphes for SHERPA-MC is disabled, the interface is defunct
• The OpenLoops package is compiled with a limited set of processes
• The recola2 package is compiled only with the SM (Standard Model) model files
• The fastjet package is compiled without CGAL support
• The geant4 package is compiled without python support and some other features (e.g. needed to run examples)

For most packages the sources are taken from their upstream repositories and only some patches that allows for the builds are applied. However some packages contain an extended functionality of a larger amount of added codes, or even created from scratch. These packages are:

• rapgap -- added support for Rivet/HepMC3
• cascade -- added support for Rivet/HepMC3
• fjcontrib -- added compilation of shared libraries
• lhapdf-sets-Herwig -- a technical package created from scratch that provides a set of PDF needed to build Herwig
• lhapdf-sets-whizard -- a technical package created from scratch that provides a set of PDF needed to build whizard

For various reasons the source codes for some packages are provided internally, i.e. not downloaded at build time from the upstream. These packages are:

• golem95 -- the online sources were lost during the migration of HEPForge
• cernlib -- the package is not supported by the upstream
• f2c -- the tarball is not versioned, the sources used came from the Fedora

Installation Instructions

To use the repository with RHEL8/CentOS8/etc. with root privileges do once

yum install epel-release

yum install yum-plugin-copr

yum copr enable averbyts/HEPrpms

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-8/averbyts-HEPrpms-epel-8.repo

• Add the lines from averbyts-HEPrpms-epel-8.repo to the to the end of the myyum.conf:

cat averbyts-HEPrpms-epel-8.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.

• Extract the content of downloaded RPMs, e.g.

rpm2cpio /my/download/directory/SHERPA-MC-2.2.8-14.el8.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv /plac/ewhere/you/want/to/install/it

rpm2cpio /my/download/directory/openloops-2.1.1-3.el8.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv /plac/ewhere/you/want/to/install/it

...

• Setup environment variables like $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to your installation directory.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Epel for CentOS 8	x86_64 (0)*	Epel for CentOS 8 (34 downloads)

* Total number of packages downloaded in the last seven days.