How To Install root-foam on CentOS 8
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.
