The PythiaTools package contains libraries and programs that serve as a user-interface to the PYTHIA 6 event generator. It was originally developed by Sean Kelly at Nevis, and is currently maintained by Dave Winter and others. It uses PYTHIA as implemented in ROOT. Here are the instructions on how to check out your own copy and use it.

Here are the steps to start from scratch:

Step 1: Get the code

 mkdir -p /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/devel 

 cd /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/devel 

 cvs -d ~winter/mycvs checkout PythiaTools

OR

 cvs -d MYNAME@shang.nevis.columbia.edu:/a/file/usr10/doe/winter/mycvs' checkout PythiaTools

if you are somewhere off-site from nevis (like rcrf).

Step 2: Configure your build area

 mkdir -p /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/build 

 cd /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/build 

 /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/devel/autogen.sh --prefix=/a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/install 

Step 3: Build the software

 cd /a/data/shang/MYNAME/work/build
 make

Step 4: Install the software

make install 

run_pythia

Converting run_pythia output to PHPythia output

-- DavidWinter - 11 Jun 2008