How To Install root-minuit2 on CentOS 8

root-minuit2 is Minuit version 2 library for ROOT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-minuit2 on CentOS 8.

What is `root-minuit2`

This package contains the MINUIT version 2 library for ROOT. This provides an fitting algorithm for ROOT.

We can use yum or dnf to install root-minuit2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install root-minuit2.

Install root-minuit2 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-minuit2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-minuit2

Install root-minuit2 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-minuit2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-minuit2

How To Uninstall root-minuit2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the root-minuit2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove root-minuit2

root-minuit2 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/root/Minuit2
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ABObj.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ABProd.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ABSum.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ABTypes.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/AnalyticalGradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BFGSErrorUpdator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicFunctionGradient.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicFunctionMinimum.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicMinimumError.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicMinimumParameters.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicMinimumSeed.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/BasicMinimumState.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/CombinedMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/CombinedMinimumBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ContoursError.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/DavidonErrorUpdator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FCNAdapter.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FCNBase.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FCNGradAdapter.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FCNGradientBase.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliChi2FCN.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliErrorUpdator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliFCNAdapter.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliFCNBase.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliGradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliMaximumLikelihoodFCN.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliStandardChi2FCN.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FumiliStandardMaximumLikelihoodFCN.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FunctionGradient.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FunctionMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/FunctionMinimum.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/GenericFunction.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/GradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/HessianGradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/InitialGradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LASymMatrix.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LAVector.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LaInverse.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LaOuterProduct.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LaProd.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/LaSum.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MPIProcess.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MatrixInverse.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumError.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumErrorUpdator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumParameters.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumSeed.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumSeedGenerator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinimumState.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinosError.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/Minuit2Minimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MinuitParameter.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnApplication.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnConfig.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnContours.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnCovarianceSqueeze.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnCross.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnEigen.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnFcn.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnFumiliMinimize.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnFunctionCross.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnGlobalCorrelationCoeff.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnHesse.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnLineSearch.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnMachinePrecision.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnMatrix.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnMigrad.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnMinimize.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnMinos.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnParabola.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnParabolaFactory.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnParabolaPoint.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnParameterScan.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnPlot.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnPosDef.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnPrint.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnRefCountedPointer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnReferenceCounter.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnScan.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnSeedGenerator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnSimplex.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnStrategy.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnTiny.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnTraceObject.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnUserCovariance.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnUserFcn.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnUserParameterState.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnUserParameters.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnUserTransformation.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/MnVectorTransform.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ModularFunctionMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/NegativeG2LineSearch.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/Numerical2PGradientCalculator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ParametricFunction.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ScanBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/ScanMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SimplexBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SimplexMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SimplexParameters.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SimplexSeedGenerator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SinParameterTransformation.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SqrtLowParameterTransformation.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/SqrtUpParameterTransformation.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/StackAllocator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/VariableMetricBuilder.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/VariableMetricEDMEstimator.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/VariableMetricMinimizer.h
/usr/include/root/Minuit2/VectorOuterProduct.h
/usr/include/root/TMinuit2TraceObject.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/58f739cdce58f9aea1c591d79f5fab213d2263
/usr/lib64/root/libMinuit2.rootmap
/usr/lib64/root/libMinuit2.so
/usr/lib64/root/libMinuit2.so.6.22
/usr/lib64/root/libMinuit2.so.6.22.08
/usr/lib64/root/libMinuit2_rdict.pcm
/usr/share/root/plugins/ROOT@@Math@@Minimizer/P010_Minuit2Minimizer.C
/usr/share/root/plugins/TVirtualFitter/P030_TFitterMinuit.C
/usr/share/root/plugins/TVirtualFitter/P040_TFitterFumili.C

References

root-minuit2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-minuit2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.