Information about the package, pythia8, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pythia8 package is designed for, Pythia Event Generator for High Energy Physics.
Package Name:
pythia8
Summary:
Pythia Event Generator for High Energy Physics
Description:
PYTHIA is a program for the generation of high-energy physics events, i.e. for the description of collisions at high energies between elementary particles such as e�, e�, p and p̄ in various combinations. It contains theory and models for a number of physics aspects, including hard and soft interactions, parton distributions, initial and final-state parton showers, multiple interactions, fragmentation and decay.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8.2.15
Release:
2.el6
Size:
1.6 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the pythia8 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pythia8
This command will install pythia8 on the server.
yum remove pythia8
This command will un-install pythia8 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pythia8, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pythia8
This command will un-install pythia8 on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pythia8 when using the -y flag.
yum update pythia8
This command will update pythia8 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pythia8, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pythia8
This command will update pythia8 to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pythia8 when using the -y flag.
yum info pythia8
This command will show you core information about the pythia8 package.
yum deplist pythia8
This command will show you the dependencies for pythia8. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update pythia8
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pythia8. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.