glpsol command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

glpsol: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glpsol: command not found

Solutions to glpsol: command not found

How To Fix glpsol: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu glpsol is provided by glpk-utils package.

glpk-utils is:

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable library.

This package contains a stand-alone LP/MIP solver (glpsol) and several example problems.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install glpk-utils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install glpk-utils.

sudo apt -y install glpk-utils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install glpk-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix glpsol command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.