How To Install root-foam on CentOS 8

root-foam is A Compact Version of the Cellular Event Generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-foam on CentOS 8.

What is root-foam

The general-purpose self-adapting Monte Carlo (MC) event generator/simulator mFOAM (standing for mini-FOAM) is a new compact version of the FOAM program, with a slightly limited functionality with respect to its parent version. On the other hand, mFOAM is easier to use for the average user.

We can use yum or dnf to install root-foam on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install root-foam.

Install root-foam 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 root-foam using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-foam

Install root-foam 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 root-foam using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-foam

How To Uninstall root-foam on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the root-foam package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove root-foam

root-foam Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/root/TFoam.h
/usr/include/root/TFoamCell.h
/usr/include/root/TFoamIntegrand.h
/usr/include/root/TFoamMaxwt.h
/usr/include/root/TFoamSampler.h
/usr/include/root/TFoamVect.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/e607c06ec78baf5ab5a4c2af1275631ca92282
/usr/lib64/root/libFoam.rootmap
/usr/lib64/root/libFoam.so
/usr/lib64/root/libFoam.so.6.22
/usr/lib64/root/libFoam.so.6.22.08
/usr/lib64/root/libFoam_rdict.pcm
/usr/share/root/plugins/ROOT@@Math@@DistSampler/P020_TFoamSampler.C

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-foam on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.