Installing OR-Tools for .Net from Binary on Linux

  • This guide provides instructions for installing Google's OR-Tools for .Net on various Linux distributions, specifically focusing on the x86_64 architecture.

  • Before installing OR-Tools, ensure you have .Net Core SDK 3.1 or higher installed, with specific instructions provided for different Linux distributions.

  • Download the appropriate OR-Tools binary distribution for your Linux system from the provided links and extract it.

  • Validate your installation by running the make test command in the extracted directory to execute sample OR-Tools examples.

  • Upon successful completion of the tests, you are ready to begin using OR-Tools for your .Net projects.

 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 7 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Debian SID 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Debian 11 (bullseye) 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 38 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 37 64-bit (x86_64)
  • OpenSuse Leap 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 24.10 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 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 rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/centos/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
sudo yum install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
 ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-centos#centos-7

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
 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
 ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian

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

Installing OR-Tools

Take the following steps to install the OR-Tools library for .Net:

Download and extract the binary distribution for your system:

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.