Installation

Basic installation

The preferred way to install optimagic is via conda or mamba. To do so, open a terminal and type:

conda install -c conda-forge optimagic

Alternatively, you can install optimagic via pip:

pip install optimagic

In both cases, you get optimagic and all of its mandatory dependencies.

Installing optional dependencies

Only scipy is a mandatory dependency of optimagic. Other algorithms become available if you install more packages. We make this optional because you will rarely need all of them in the same project.

For an overview of all optimizers and the packages you need to install to enable them, see Optimizers.

To enable all algorithms at once, do the following:

conda -c conda-forge install nlopt

pip install Py-BOBYQA

pip install DFO-LS

conda install -c conda-forge petsc4py

Note: `petsc4py` is not available on Windows.

conda install -c conda-forge cyipopt

Note: Make sure you have at least cyipopt 1.4.

conda install -c conda-forge pygmo

pip install fides>=0.7.4

Note: Make sure you have at least fides 0.7.4.