Installation

Recommended installation

We highly recommend installing COBYQA via PyPI. This does not need you to download the source code. Install pip in your system, then execute

pip install cobyqa

in a command shell (e.g., the terminal in Linux or Mac, or the Command Shell for Windows). If your pip launcher is not pip, adapt the command (it may be pip3 for example). If this command runs successfully, COBYQA is installed. You may verify whether COBYQA is successfully installed by executing

python -c "import cobyqa; cobyqa.show_versions()"

If your Python launcher is not python, adapt the command (it may be python3 for example).

Alternative installation (using source distribution)

Alternatively, although discouraged, COBYQA can be installed from the source code. Download and decompress the source code package. You will obtain a folder containing pyproject.toml. In a command shell, change your directory to this folder, and then run

pip install .