HEP Packaging Team

I joined the High Energy Physics packaging team over at Launchpad recently. I'm currently maintaining packages for AGILe and Rivet for them, and if I get off of my arse and sort it out I may get a package for Pythia8 sorted soon (since at the moment the version of AGILe in the PPA doesn't/can't support Pythia8).

The packages I've put up there are for Intrepid but they should work on any Debian/Ubuntu system with little issue, with the following exceptions:

• If you're running Hardy you might have a problem with Rivet since it depends on ROOT which isn't in the Hardy repos. I may make this a recommendation, rather than a dependency, in the next version since you don't necessarily need ROOT support to run Rivet.
  
• Until either myself or Frank Siegert get around to uploading a fixed version of Fastjet a version of Rivet for the lpia arch isn't available.
• As I mentioned above AGILe doesn't support Pythia8 or Sherpa, until I get a package for Pythia8 made and upload a version that compiles with Sherpa. If you want Pythia8 support use the version of AGILe from my repos. Of course, if you run the Python rivet and don't use rivetgun (or use rivetgun with HepMC files as the input), you can use any Pythia8 interface and just pipe it's output to rivet.

Me putting packages up there kind of makes my repos slightly redundant, but I'll continue to put any testing versions of AGILe and Rivet there.