Hi! First of all, I would thank the openSUSE team and community for all
the work and support they provide! I’m a physicist, and I was wondering
if there is any possibility to see ROOT and Geant4, two softwares from
‘CERN’ (http://www.cern.ch) in a repository; I think it would be useful
for people needing a simple/fast way to install them, mostly because of
their dependencies/optimizations they usually need!
Thanks for the attention!
Regards,
Diego
Hi
Are these programs open source? There is a scientific repository, if
you use bugzilla and make it an enhancement request, they may or may not
take it on. You could also use the build service to create the
programs yourself.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Yes, they are open source software, of course. I know the “Science”
repository but, frankly, it doesn’t have much software about physics,
with the exception of electronics. Anyway, I must admit I know nothing
about bugzilla or build service, and I don’t know even where to start
about building a package myself. But this does not mean I can’t learn
If you want to try building it on the build service, there are some
links to information about spec files etc. There is also a
build-service forum sub section to post questions etc.
If it wasn’t so close to Xmas, I would offer some assistance, but if
you can wait until next week I should have some more free time
Do you have links to the program sources etc?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Hi! I’ve never seen this Live DVD before… ops But yes, the two
programs I was talking about, ROOT and Geant4, are there! I must admit
that I didn’t try any other thing in these holidays, and I’m going away
from next Monday until next Friday (no internet there…), so very
little will be done in those days… Besides, I decided to install
openSUSE 11.1, and this is causing some little annoyances (another
thread is coming soon…) but on the other side ROOT now compiles from
source, which it didn’t happen on openSUSE 11.0 due to a “regression
fix” in GCC (see here: ‘Root Talk :: View topic - ROOT 5.20 on Suse 11.0
64bit’ (http://tinyurl.com/axlg6b)). All this talking of mine just to
say: in the next 10 days I won’t be able to try so much, nor to ask or
answer to any question, so I think I’ll use this time to make some
tries, then I’ll post here my results and, in case, ask once again for
your help…
In the meanwhile, thank you all and happy new year!
Diego
Hi
There are now CLHEP, Geant4 and the Geant4 data files up on my
repository. They take a long time to build lol and had to
short-circuit the FHS 2.2 checks on 11.1 for it to build.
I have yet to include the environment setup as still having some
trouble building applications against the static libraries (an
environment setting I’m sure). I manually compiled on my SLED machine as
it’s x86_64 for an initial test and could compile and run some of the
examples (A01 was the test).
If I then install the build service geant4 with shared libraries it all
works. But when I install geant4 with the static libraries I’m getting
errors when compiling the application.
Is it possible for you to provide and example of your environment
setup?
And a happy New Year as well
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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