Notes on CERNLIB Monte Carlo libraries: 1) Because the upstream authors of Pythia/Jetset never gave permission for CERN to release them under the GPL, the following Monte Carlo libraries have been removed from the set packaged by Debian. They may be obtained either by installing the ancis and montecarlo-installer-data packages, then running the commands given in /usr/share/doc/montecarlo-installer-data/README ; or by downloading and compiling source code from the web sites listed below. Please be aware that not all of these libraries have licenses that are clearly defined or DFSG-compatible. Ariadne: http://www.thep.lu.se/~leif/ariadne/index.html Pythia/Jetset: http://www.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html Lepto: http://www3.tsl.uu.se/thep/lepto/index.html Fritiof: http://www.thep.lu.se/ftp/pub/LundPrograms/Fritiof/ The montecarlo-installer-data and ancis packages are not official parts of Debian; they may be obtained by adding the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ancis/ unstable main contrib deb-src http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ancis/ unstable main contrib (Substitute "unstable" with "stable" or "testing" if appropriate.) Please note that I cannot guarantee the above URLs will continue to be valid forever. 2) The documentation available for Monte Carlo libraries comes from the CERNLIB source code. Much of it has not been updated for years (the COJETS manual, e.g., still describes the use of punch cards), and much of it is incomplete or missing. For more information about a particular library, I suggest you try the online documents at http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/ . --Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org>, 30 Dec 2003
