Sugestion to create a new arch wiki with Linear Programming content

Succulent of your garden · 2025-10-02 19:34:22

So It seems that the Arch Wiki does not have any info about Linear programming solvers. It seems there is no single solver in extra repo, they are all in the AUR like the ampl one https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ampl-asl . The world of Linear programming is more like OS, they are open source and closed source. Pyomo is a open source alternative but as you can see can be installed very simple with using pip,conda or uv https://www.pyomo.org/installation

So it seems there is no documentation about this field in the arch wiki. I could make it if it's considered worthy for the Arch Wiki. Probably adding the how to install some of the most well know solvers because there are many as you can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_pr … _languages

Not sure if it this kind of content is proper for the Arch Wiki.

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-10-02 19:35:18)

Lone_Wolf · 2025-10-03 10:30:00

There are plenty of wiki pages about aur packages, so that's not a blocker .

I suggest you start by putting the info on your user wiki page, advertise it a bit (like in your forum signature or on a personal blog if you have one) and wait for feedback.

When you feel the info is fleshed out enough, you can ask for a new 'official' wiki page.
(I don't know how to do that, but other posters will).

Succulent of your garden · 2025-10-03 13:12:56

Thanks for the info Lone_Wolf, not sure if I'm going to put it in a blog soon, but i get the point. Probably I could post over here the info with the template to get feedback, that is going to take me some time but I could make it. Is markdown the language for writing for the arch wiki ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … ction=edit It seems it does, but which flavor it is ?

Also since Solvers can be close or open source, I'm not sure if I should write the document in that way, like making an section for close source solvers installation and open source ones, or maybe I just should put the solvers with more usage. Probably the second approach I'm guessing is better for the arch wiki, so anyone that can put another solver for documentation can make it, adding in the description if it is open source or not and how to find their documentation for programming among other things.

Probably because I lack of time i can start this slowly and then in December I can put it more time, which is also a good time because probably I just could finish the complete research on about how to add solvers in Arch Linux and just write the wiki. Also I will have a more complete knowledge not only in linear programming, so I can put info about no linear programming solvers. It seems they exists but most of the time that kind of problems are solved by creating a program in a language than rather just using an scripting solver program to find optimal solutions to problems.

These kind of things are very "academic" in some sense, but I also I know that are used in jobs, for operation research problems solving, it most like just an engineering kind of stuff, for example here in my country it seems we use a lot of gurobi https://www.gurobi.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurobi_Optimizer . As you can see we have the AUR pacakge https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gurobi and it seems there are some folks who are using arch linux to do Operation research things. Gurobi If I'm not wrong is close source, and most of the time you need to create the account thing to download it, or it seems that's the norm of the way, like AMPL for example that does the same.

Also not sure if I can quote homebrew for installation of solvers, since for example in the case of AMPL it does exists in brew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ampl-asl

So I'm just saying with my humble opinion that the Arch Wiki does lack info about this kind of topic, and it seems some people are using this kind of stuff but they are not using the Arch Linux Forum maybe, but they exists in the AUR. So maybe it could be a great idea to start to create a documentation about Linear & non linear programming solvers, which can be just a wiki of Operation Research solvers in which people can add info about it. I can start doing that if the Arch Wiki Maintainers think is worth it of add it. I also can add some general knowledge of the field but maybe that's just too out of scope, it's more like programming on it than installing software in Arch Linux

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-10-03 13:16:25)

Lone_Wolf · 2025-10-04 09:05:46

markdown is not suitable for creating wiki pages , it just lacks to many things.

Archwiki uses mediawiki (which was started by wikipedia) , check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software for an overview of existing methods .

If you do decide to start with a archwiki user page, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Help:Editing .

Once there is content that's relevant for arch users, you can ask arch wiki admins to consider adding it.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-10-05 10:01:57)

Succulent of your garden · 2025-10-04 13:00:52

I get it, thanks Lone_Wolf for the links and information ^^

I'm going to mark this as solved. If I saw that I can create a nice page about this topic in the future for Arch Linux usage, then I'm going to write in mediawiki so mods can see it and decide if it is worthy or not.

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#1 2025-10-02 19:34:22

Sugestion to create a new arch wiki with Linear Programming content

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