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Download and installation instructions

Installation instructions
CVS instructions
List of examples
Older releases

For Mathematica 6 only: I (Rolf) patched FeynCalc to be compatible with Mathematica 6 (not Phi, not FeynArts) and zipped it together, including fully evaluated documentation notebooks in HighEnergyPhysics/Documentation/English/. It can be downloaded here: feyncalc600.zip. Notice that this version does not load Phi, neither FeynArts, by default. Notice that these changes are not entered into CVS yet, due to lack of time.
The latest (CVS-snapshot) release with a couple of bug fixes, fully compatible with Mathematica 5.2, is FeynCalc 5.1 beta3. This is currently the recommended version.. It can be downloaded here: fc5beta3.tar.gz, fc5beta3.zip.
Older development releases can be downloaded here: fc5beta2.tar.gz, fc5beta2.zip, fc5beta1.tar.gz, fc5beta1.zip, HighEnergyPhysics-4.2.0pre1.tar.gz, HighEnergyPhysics-4.2.0pre1.zip.
The latest stable release is FeynCalc 4.1.1.0. You can download it here: HighEnergyPhysics-4.1.1.0.tar.gz, HighEnergyPhysics-4.1.1.0.zip.
Older releases can be downloaded here: HighEnergyPhysics-4.1.0.3b.tar.gz, HighEnergyPhysics-4.1.0.3b.zip.

    Installation instructions    
   

See the news page for information about releases.

  1. Download the file HighEnergyPhysics-xxx.tar.gz or HighEnergyPhysics-xxx.zip (if you're using using Windows you'll probably want the zip file) by clicking one of the links above.
  2. Place the file in the directory "Applications", in the directory hierarchy of your Mathematica installation. If you're on a Unix system, "Applications" can also be in ~/.Mathematica.
  3. Make sure there is not already a directory 'HighEnergyPhysics' (and move it out of the way if there is).
  4. Unpack the file: Under UNIX, type tar -xvzf HighEnergyPhysics-xxx.tar.gz; under MacOS and Windows, use some utility like StuffIt Expander or WinZip.
  5. If you've made any customizations in the configuration file FCConfig.m, merge them from the file you've moved away into the new file.
  6. Start Mathematica.
  7. Choose 'Rebuild Help Index' from the 'Help' menu.
  8. Type <<HighEnergyPhysics`FeynCalc` and try out one of the examples.


    CVS instructions    
   
CVS instructions:

First, notice that the whole repository is 23 MB, so it is not recommended to check everything out. You can safely leave out "Phi/CouplingVectors". This directory is currently 13 MB and contains only information which can be regenerated or downloaded when needed.

Second, checking out the full CVS tree will not necessarily result in a usable installation. You can get single files from CVS via the web interface.

For general information on CVS, for your convenience we've put two easily read introductions here: "CVS for Dummies" (from www.ucolick.org), "Introduction to CVS" (from www.cyclic.com).

Under UNIX with ssh and cvs installed, do the following:
  1. ssh -l fc -L 2401:www.feyncalc.org:2401 www.feyncalc.org
  2. Type in the password 'feyncalc'
  3. Open a new shell
  4. cvs -d :pserver:fc@localhost:/home/cvs/HIGHENERGYPHYSICS login
  5. Type in the password 'fc'
  6. cvs -d :pserver:fc@localhost:/home/cvs/HIGHENERGYPHYSICS get HighEnergyPhysics
Under Mac OS and Windows with an ssh client capable of port forwarding (like F-secure) and a cvs client (like WinCVS or MacCVS) installed, do the following:
  1. Start the ssh client and configure a connection to www.feyncalc.org, enable forwarding the local port 2401 to port 2401 on www.feyncalc.org.
  2. Connect to www.feyncalc.org with user name 'fc'.
  3. Start the cvs client and checkout the module HighEnergyPhysics from localhost with CVSROOT '/home/cvs/HIGHENERGYPHYSICS', user name 'fc' and password 'fc'.


    List of examples    
   

The list of examples include examples contributed by users as well as examples provided by the developers.

We are working on a set of examples which will be published here as soon as they are finished.

If you have made some nice calculations using FeynCalc, don't hesitate to post them to feyncalc AT feyncalc.org. We will then consider adding them to the list below.


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