How To Install libhepmcinterface8 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhepmcinterface8
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libhepmcinterface8
libhepmcinterface8 is:
PYTHIA is a program for the generation of high-energy physics events, i.e. for the description of collisions at high energies between elementary particles such as e+, e-, p and pbar in various combinations. It contains theory and models for a number of physics aspects, including hard and soft interactions, parton distributions, initial- and final-state parton showers, multiple interactions, fragmentation and decay.
This is a transitional dummy package, HepMC interface has been moved into the package ’libpythia8'.
There are three methods to install libhepmcinterface8
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libhepmcinterface8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libhepmcinterface8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libhepmcinterface8
Install libhepmcinterface8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libhepmcinterface8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libhepmcinterface8
Install libhepmcinterface8 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libhepmcinterface8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libhepmcinterface8
How To Uninstall libhepmcinterface8 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libhepmcinterface8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libhepmcinterface8
Uninstall libhepmcinterface8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libhepmcinterface8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libhepmcinterface8
Remove libhepmcinterface8 Configurations and Data
To remove libhepmcinterface8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libhepmcinterface8
Remove libhepmcinterface8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libhepmcinterface8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libhepmcinterface8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libhepmcinterface8
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.