Ubuntu Packages
Here I try to list all of the installed ubuntu packages and give an explanation of why they are included. Lot's of these packages are installed into the ROOT official docker container and so I have copied them here. I have looked into their purpose by a combination of googling the package name and looking at ROOT's reason for them.
In the Dockerfile, most packages are added when they are needed for the rest of
the build. Adding packages before they are needed means the container needs to
be rebuilt starting from the point you add them, so it is a good habit to avoid
doing so. There is a helper script installed in the container
install-ubuntu-packages that can be called directly in the Dockerfile with a
list of packages to install.
If you want to add additional packages that aren't necessary for building ldmx-sw, its dependencies, or the container environment use the install command at the end of the Dockerfile.
Note: If you are looking to add python packages, prefer adding them to the python packages file rather than installing them from the ubuntu repositories.
| Package | Necessary | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| apt-utils | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| autoconf | Yes | Configuration of log4cpp build, needed for GENIE |
| automake | Yes | Configuration of log4cpp build, needed for GENIE |
| bc | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| binutils | Yes | Adding PPA and linking libraries |
| ca-certificates | Yes | Installing certificates to trust in container |
| clang-format | Yes | LDMX C++ code formatting |
| cmake | Yes | Make configuration, v3.22.1 available in Ubuntu 22.04 repos |
| curl | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| dialog | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| diffutils | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| davix-dev | No | Remote I/O, file transfer and file management |
| dcap-dev | Unknown | C-API to the DCache Access Protocol |
| dpkg-dev | No | Old Installation from PPA |
| findutils | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| fish | Yes | Shell necessary for distrobox support |
| fonts-freefont-ttf | Yes | Fonts for plots |
| g++ | Yes | Compiler with C++17 support, v11 available in Ubuntu 22.04 repos |
| gcc | Yes | Compiler with C++17 support, v11 available in Ubuntu 22.04 repos |
| gdb | No | Supporting debugging LDMX-sw programs within the container |
| gfortran | Yes | FORTRAN compiler; needed for compiling Pythia6, which in turn is needed for GENIE |
| gnupg2 | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| git | No | Old Downloading dependency sources |
| less | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| libafterimage-dev | Yes | ROOT GUI depends on these for common shapes |
| libasan8 | No | Runtime components for the compiler based instrumentation tools that come with GCC |
| libboost-all-dev | Yes | Direct ldmx-sw dependency, v1.74 available in Ubuntu 22.04 repos, v1.71 required by ACTS |
| libcfitsio-dev | No | Reading and writing in FITS data format |
| libfcgi-dev | No | Open extension of CGI for internet applications |
| libfftw3-dev | Yes | Computing discrete fourier transform |
| libfreetype6-dev | Yes | Fonts for plots |
| libftgl-dev | Yes | Rendering fonts in OpenGL |
| libgfal2-dev | No | Toolkit for file management across different protocols |
| libgif-dev | Yes | Saving plots as GIFs |
| libgl1-mesa-dev | Yes | MesaGL allowing 3D rendering using OpenGL |
| libgl2ps-dev | Yes | Convert OpenGL image to PostScript file |
| libglew-dev | Yes | GLEW library for helping use OpenGL |
| libglu-dev | Yes | OpenGL Utility Library |
| libgraphviz-dev | No | Graph visualization library |
| libgsl-dev | Yes | GNU Scientific library for numerical calculations; needed for GENIE |
| libjpeg-dev | Yes | Saving plots as JPEGs |
| liblog4cpp5-dev | Yes | Dependency of GENIE |
| liblz4-dev | Yes | Data compression |
| liblzma-dev | Yes | Data compression |
| libmysqlclient-dev | No | Interact with SQL database |
| libnss-myhostname | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| libpcre++-dev | Yes | Regular expression pattern matching |
| libpng-dev | Yes | Saving plots as PNGs |
| libpq-dev | No | Light binaries and headers for PostgreSQL applications |
| libpythia8-dev | No | Pythia8 HEP simulation |
| libsqlite3-dev | No | Interact with SQL database |
| libssl-dev | Yes | Securely interact with other computers and encrypt files |
| libtbb-dev | No | Multi-threading |
| libtiff-dev | No | Save plots as TIFF image files |
| libtool | Yes | Needed for log4cpp build, in turn needed for GENIE |
| libvte-2.9[0-9]-common | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| libvte-common | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| libx11-dev | Yes | Low-level window management with X11 |
| libxext-dev | Yes | Low-level window management |
| libxft-dev | Yes | Low-level window management |
| libxml2-dev | Yes | Low-level window management |
| libxmu-dev | Yes | Low-level window management |
| libxpm-dev | Yes | Low-level window management |
| libz-dev | Yes | Data compression |
| libzstd-dev | Yes | Data compression |
| lsof | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| locales | Yes | Configuration of TPython and other python packages |
| make | Yes | Building dependencies and ldmx-sw source |
| ncurses-base | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| passwd | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| pinentry-curses | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| procps | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| python3-dev | Yes | ROOT TPython and ldmx-sw ConfigurePython |
| python3-pip | Yes | For downloading more python packages later |
| python3-numpy | Yes | ROOT TPython requires numpy |
| python3-tk | Yes | matplotlib requires python-tk for some plotting |
| sudo | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| srm-ifce-dev | Unknown | Unknown |
| time | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| unixodbc-dev | No | Access different data sources uniformly |
| util-linux | Yes | Necessary for distrobox support |
| wget | Yes | Download Xerces-C source and dowload Conditions tables in ldmx-sw |