Introduction
This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for .Net on Linux.
Although these instructions might also work on other Linux variants, we have only tested them on machines meeting the following requirements:
- Alpine Edge 64-bit (x86_64)
- Centos Stream 8 64-bit (x86_64)
- Centos 7 64-bit (x86_64)
- Debian 11 (bullseye) 64-bit (x86_64)
- Debian 10 (buster) 64-bit (x86_64)
- Fedora 36 64-bit (x86_64)
- Fedora 35 64-bit (x86_64)
- Fedora 34 64-bit (x86_64)
- Fedora 33 64-bit (x86_64)
- OpenSuse Leap 64-bit (x86_64)
- Ubuntu 22.10 64-bit (x86_64)
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
Prerequisites
The following sections describe the prerequisites for installing OR-Tools.
.Net Core SDK >= 3.1
Next, install the .Net Core SDK version 3.1 or higher. To do so, open a terminal window and enter:
Alpine
apk add dotnet6-sdk
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-alpine
Centos
sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-rhel#supported-distributions
Centos
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-centos#centos-7sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/centos/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
sudo yum install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
Debian
Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debiansudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
Debian
Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debiansudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
Fedora
sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora
Fedora
sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora
Fedora
sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora
Fedora
sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora
OpenSUSE
Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.
sudo zypper install libicu
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/opensuse/15/prod.repo
sudo mv prod.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo
sudo chown root:root /etc/zypp/repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo
Then you can install the .Net SDK using the following command:
sudo zypper install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-opensuse
Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu
Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu
Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu
Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu
Installing OR-Tools
Take the following steps to install the OR-Tools library for .Net:
Download and extract the binary distribution for your system:
- Alpine Edge
- CentOS Stream 8
- CentOS 7
- Debian Sid
- Debian 11
- Debian 10
- Fedora 36
- Fedora 35
- Fedora 34
- Fedora 33
- OpenSuse Leap
- Ubuntu 22.10
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Validate your installation
To test your .Net installations, open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you unpacked the binary distribution. Then enter the following command:
make test
This runs a selection of examples for OR-Tools. If all the examples run successfully, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.