How To Install NLopt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install NLopt on CentOS 7.
What is NLopt
NLopt is a library for nonlinear local and global optimization, for functions with and without gradient information. It is designed as as simple, unified interface and packaging of several free/open-source nonlinear optimization libraries. It features bindings for GNU Guile, Octave and Python. This build has been made with C++-support enabled.
We can use yum or dnf to install NLopt on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install NLopt.
Install NLopt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install NLopt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install NLopt
Install NLopt on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install NLopt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install NLopt
How To Uninstall NLopt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the NLopt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove NLopt
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install NLopt on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
