Installer soplex avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• soplex

Historique du projet

The official SoPlex site describes it as an advanced implementation of the primal and dual revised simplex algorithm with support for exact rational LP solving. It names Roland Wunderling as the original author and lists current and former developers around the Zuse Institute Berlin optimization community.

SoPlex is part of the SCIP Optimization Suite and the GitHub README says the original repository is hosted at ZIB, with a read-only GitHub mirror under the `scipopt` organization. That mirror is the official public HTTP source-control URL useful to package managers.

Historique d'adoption

The official site says SoPlex has been used in numerous research and industry projects and is the standard LP solver linked to SCIP. That gives it importance beyond the standalone `soplex` executable: many users encounter it as a dependency in mathematical optimization stacks.

The package-manager metadata in this batch shows SoPlex available through Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, and Nix. For a specialized scientific solver, that is meaningful distribution coverage.

Modes d'utilisation

SoPlex can be used as a standalone command-line solver reading MPS or LP format files, or embedded as a C++ class library. Its niche is linear programming, especially cases where exact rational techniques, iterative refinement, or numerically difficult LPs matter.

For CLI users, the value is reproducible local access to an LP solver without pulling in the full SCIP workflow. For library users, the package exposes the solver as a C++ dependency that other optimization tools can link against.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

SoPlex is the kind of package package nerds care about because it turns academic and industrial optimization research into a buildable, linkable Unix package. It sits at the boundary between scientific software, command-line tools, and dependency plumbing for larger solvers.

The 2021 public GitHub mirrors and the later Apache-2.0 licensing shift are especially relevant to packaging culture: they make source retrieval, redistribution, and automated builds easier for general-purpose package managers.

Chronologie

• 2015: Version 2.2.0 released according to the official SoPlex news archive.
• 2021: Public GitHub mirrors announced for SCIP, SoPlex, and PaPILO.
• 2022: SoPlex announced a move to the Apache 2.0 license for the next release.
• 2026: SoPlex v8.0.2 released as part of SCIP Optimization Suite 10.0.2.

Related projects

• SCIP is the main related optimization solver and standard consumer named by the SoPlex site.
• ZIMPL, GCG, UG, and PaPILO are adjacent projects in the SCIP Optimization Suite ecosystem.
• soplex-rs and SoPlex.jl provide language bindings or wrappers for Rust and Julia users.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/scipopt/soplex
• https://api.github.com/repos/scipopt/soplex/releases
• https://github.com/scipopt/soplex
• https://soplex.zib.de/
• input.json source_facts.package-manager