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Obtaining the OS Source Code From a Tarball or Zip File

The OS source code can also be obtained from either a tarball or zip file. This may be preferred for users who are not managing other COIN-OR projects and wish to only work with periodic release versions of the code. In order to obtain the code from a Tarball or Zip file do the following.

Step 1: In a browser open the link http://www.coin-or.org/Tarballs/OS/. Listed at this page are files in the format:

OS-release_number.tgz
OS-release_number.zip

Step 2: Click on either the tgz or zip file and download to the desired directory.

Step 3: Unpack the files. For tgz do the following at the command line:

gunzip OS-release_number.tgz
tar -xvf OS-release_number.tar

Windows users should be able to double click on the file OS-releaseFnumber.zip and have the directory unpacked.

Step 4: Rename OS-releaseFnumber to COIN-OS.

Now build the project as described in Section 4.


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Kipp Martin 2008-01-16