How To Install HepMC3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install HepMC3 on CentOS 8.
What is HepMC3
The HepMC3 package is an object oriented, C++ event record for High Energy Physics Monte Carlo generators and simulation, described in A. Buckley et al., “The HepMC3 Event Record Library for Monte Carlo Event Generators” Comput.Phys.Commun. 260 (2021) 107310, arxiv It is a continuation of the HepMC2 by M. Dobbs and J.B. Hansen described in “The HepMC C++ Monte Carlo event record for High Energy Physics” (Comput. Phys. Commun. 134 (2001) 41). In the version 3 the package has undergone several modifications and in particular, the latest HepMC3 series is a completely new re-write using currently available C++11 techniques, and have out-of-the-box interfaces for the widely used in HEP community ROOT and Python.
We can use yum or dnf to install HepMC3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install HepMC3.
Install HepMC3 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install HepMC3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install HepMC3
Install HepMC3 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install HepMC3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install HepMC3
How To Uninstall HepMC3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the HepMC3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove HepMC3
HepMC3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/8971a4af22ea1199cbd6910c1af82852b0e4f3
/usr/lib64/libHepMC3.so.3
/usr/share/licenses/HepMC3
/usr/share/licenses/HepMC3/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install HepMC3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.