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[170]1Frequently Asked Questions
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[334]3-- Latest revision : 12/03/2009 --
4-- See also Delphes website:
5-- http://www.fynu.ucl.ac.be/users/s.ovyn/Delphes/faq.html
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[334]8(Q) Delphes complains that data/DataCardDet.dat is not found.
9(A) In more recent version of the code (>1.4beta) the default names have been changed to DetectorCard.dat.
10 Similarly, trigger cards are now called TriggerCard.dat
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13(Q) May I run the convertor stage independently before running Delphes?
14(A) Yes, you can convert your generator-level input files, by running the 'Convertors_Only' executable:
15 me@mylaptop:~$ ./Convertors_Only
16 Usage: ./Convertors_Only input_file output_file
17 input_list - list of files in Ntpl, StdHep of LHEF format,
18 output_file - output file.
19 me@mylaptop:~$ ./Convertors_Only TEST.list converted.root
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22(Q) I did not create a LHCO output file when I ran Delphes (FLAG_lhco=0). Can I do this on my ROOT output file?
23(A) The LHCO output file can be easily created out-of your Delphes ROOT output file, by running the 'LHCO_Only' executable:
24 me@mylaptop:~$ ./LHCO_Only
25 Usage: ./LHCO_Only input_file [runlog_file]
26 input_file - file in Delphes root format,
27 [runlog_file] - the corresponding log file (optional)
28 me@mylaptop:~$ ./LHCO_Only test.root
29
30(Q) I did not run the triggers when I ran Delphes (FLAG_trigger=0). Can I reprocess this on my output file?
31(A) There is no problem to re-run the trigger on a Delphes output-file. Just run the 'Trigger_Only' executable:
32 me@mylaptop:~$ ./Trigger_Only
33 Usage: ./Trigger_Only input_file output_file [detector_card] [trigger_card]
34 input_file - file in Delphe root format,
35 trigger_card - Datacard containing the trigger algorithms (optional)
36 me@mylaptop:~$ ./Trigger_Only test_without_trigger.root test_with_trigger.root data/mydetector.dat data/mytrigger.dat
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[170]38(Q) I do not remember how to run FROG
39(A) Just run the "frog" executable in Utilities/FROG
40 me@mylaptop:~$ cd Utilities/FROG
41 me@mylaptop:~$ ./frog
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[170]44(Q) How should I know which external libraries I need for FROG ?
45(A) Please refer to this page on the FROG website:
46 http://projects.hepforge.org/frog/Visualization.html
47 you will need OpenGL, GLUT, X11-devel, Curl. For instance:
48 OpenGL :
49 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
50 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
51 GLUT :
52 freeglut-2.2.0-14
53 freeglut-devel-2.2.0-14
54 X11-devel :
55 xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2
56 CURL :
57 libcurl
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[170]60(Q) FROG complains that libcurl is missing. What should I do?
61(A) First, make sure the libcurl library is installed on your computer.
62 - locate it on your computer
63 me@mylaptop:~$ locate libcurl.so
64 /usr/lib/libcurl.so
65 - if the library is not present, take it from the internet (http://curl.haxx.se/) or via installers like "apt-get" (ubuntu systems) or "yum" (fedora systems)
66 - if the libcurl.so is not found, juste make a symbolic link in Utilities/FROG/Lib:
67 me@mylaptop:~$ cd Utilities/FROG/Lib
68 me@mylaptop:~$ ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so
69 me@mylaptop:~$ ls -l libcurl.so
70 lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me 21 Jan 7 15:19 libcurl.so -> /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.0.1
71 - now it should work properly
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[334]73(Q) (fixed) there are many lines printed at the end of the run of Delphes. Is it an error?
7455555 D0
75 - 20000 D0
76 - - 3000 (detId=900000000 Name=Delphes)
77 - - - 3000 (detId=910000000 Name=Tracker)
78 - - - - 41040 (detId=9100010)
79 - - - - 41040 (detId=9100020)
80 - - - - 41040 (detId=9100030)
81 - - - - 41040 (detId=9100040)
82...
83(A) no, this is normal, this is just the output of FROG, showing that everything is ok.
84You should find your *vis and *geom files when it has ended.
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