How To Install HepMC3 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install HepMC3
on CentOS 7.
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 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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install HepMC3.
Install HepMC3 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install HepMC3
using yum
by running the following command:
Install HepMC3 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install HepMC3
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall HepMC3 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the HepMC3
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install HepMC3
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.