This file describes how to install the or-tools python binary archive. OR-Tools is located at https://developers.google.com/optimization These modules have been tested under: - Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 up (64-bit). - Mac OS X El Capitan with Xcode 7.x (64 bit). - Microsoft Windows with Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (64-bit) Upon decompressing the archive, you will get the following structure: or-tools/ LICENSE-2.0.txt <- Apache License README <- This file data/ <- Data for the examples. examples/ <- Python examples ortools/ <- ortools package algorithms/ <- Directory containing non-graph algorithms. constraint_solver/ <- The main directory for the constraint library. graph/ <- Graph algorithms. linear_solver/ <- Linear solver wrapper. sat/ <- Sat solver. To install the package : 1/Make sure python and pip are installed 2/Make sure pip is up to date: pip -V should return 9.0.1 otherwise, run: pip install --upgrade pip 3/Fetch ortools from Pypi: pip install --upgrade ortools It should pull the latest version of or-tools. 4/Run a first example: python examples/python/hidato_table.py