Installation

The full Karma toolset (including skimming and ntuple-generating tools) requires the CMS Software Framework (CMSSW). Any version starting with the CMSSW_8_0_X series should already contain all the required packages. To install the Karma toolset inside a scram/CMSSW development area, follow the instructions in the section titled CMSSW below.

The PostProcessing tools Lumberjack and Palisade do not depend on CMSSW and can be installed independently. To do this, follow the instructions in the section titled Standalone below.

CMSSW

Note

This section assumes you are familiar with CMSSW, that the CERN Virtual File System (CVMFS) is mounted on your machine, and that you have access to the CMS VO software repository on CVMFS. (normally under /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch).

First, set up a scram/CMSSW working area, if you have not already done so:

$> export VO_CMS_SW_DIR=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch
$> source $VO_CMS_SW_DIR/cmsset_default.sh
$> scramv1 project CMSSW CMSSW_10_2_8

The above commands will create a directory CMSSW_10_2_8 containing a scram working area for version CMSSW_10_2_8 of CMSSW.

Next, switch to the src subdirectory of your working area and clone the Karma repository inside of it:

$> cd CMSSW_10_2_8/src
$> git clone https://github.com/dsavoiu/Karma

Finally, activate the environment and compile all packages inside the source directory using scram:

$> eval `scramv1 runtime -sh`
$> scram b -j10

That’s it! Now you should be able to run lumberjack.py and palisade.py on the command line and import the post-processing modules in Python. To test:

$> python -c 'from Karma.PostProcessing import Lumberjack, Palisade'
$> lumberjack.py --help
$> palisade.py --help

Additionally, you may want to install the optional dependency tqdm. This will allow Lumberjack and Palisade to display a progress bar in the command line while running. You can install it with pip by running:

$> pip install --user tqdm

Standalone

Todo

Test this and add this section.