Installing GLPK on a Mac

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Obsolation note:

Thanks to Dave Coleman’s comment I found out that glpk is available through homebrew now! So you just need these 2 steps to get glpk now:

  1. homebrew
  2. brew install glpk

If you still want to read on, the old way is still here…

So you want copy-paste instructions to install GLPK on your Macbook? Here are the steps:

  1. Download the latest version of GLPK from http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/#downloading
  2. Optional: Follow the instructions to verify the download (you might need to get GNU Privacy Guard or gpg for this. You can get it at http://gnupg.org)

  3. Say it’s downloaded to your “Downloads” directory, go there and execute the following commands (using the terminal) cd ~/Downloads tar -xzf glpk-4.43.tar.gz ./configure —prefix=/usr/local # see note 1 make sudo make install

  4. At this point, you should have GLPK installed. Verify it: which glpsol /usr/local/bin/glpsol

  5. … and try help: glpsol —help

Now that you are all set-up, read up this excellent introduction using GLPK: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-glpk1

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