How To Install coinor-libipopt-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libipopt-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. coinor-libipopt-dev is Interior-Point Optimizer - header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libipopt-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is coinor-libipopt-dev

coinor-libipopt-dev is:

Ipopt is an open-source solver for large-scale nonlinear continuous optimization. It can be used from modeling environments, such as AMPL, GAMS, or Matlab, and it is also available as a callable library with interfaces to C++, C, and Fortran. Ipopt uses an interior point method, together with a filter linear search procedure. Ipopt is part of the larger COIN-OR initiative (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research).

The Debian package is compiled against MUMPS (as it is the only one of the available solvers that is Free Software and included in Debian).

This package contains the header files for developers.

There are three methods to install coinor-libipopt-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install coinor-libipopt-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-libipopt-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install coinor-libipopt-dev

Install coinor-libipopt-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-libipopt-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install coinor-libipopt-dev

Install coinor-libipopt-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install coinor-libipopt-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install coinor-libipopt-dev

How To Uninstall coinor-libipopt-dev on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the coinor-libipopt-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove coinor-libipopt-dev

Uninstall coinor-libipopt-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall coinor-libipopt-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove coinor-libipopt-dev

Remove coinor-libipopt-dev Configurations and Data

To remove coinor-libipopt-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge coinor-libipopt-dev

Remove coinor-libipopt-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove coinor-libipopt-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coinor-libipopt-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install coinor-libipopt-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.