math.net installation for F#

Question

I am quite new to F# and am trying to install math.net on Ubuntu 13.04. The following page recommends using the Package Manager Console to install on Linux 64

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MathNet.Numerics.MKL.Linux-x64/

but I am puzzled by the fact that in my understand the PMC is only available in VS, hence in Windows only. Any suggestion? Or maybe I should not rely on this library, and a different one is the standard?

Answer 1

The NuGet gallery recommends PMC on every page. It doesn't seem to be aware that you are on linux, where PMC is not available(*).

You'll want to look at the instructions in this link.

I can't tell if the package in question is the one you want–that depends of course on what you expect it to do for you :)

(*) I'm on a Mac. I feel your pain.

Answer 2

It seems using F# from Ubuntu got much more straightforward in 14.04, see fsharp.org.

For Math.NET Numerics in F# you then only need the MathNet.Numerics.FSharp package, and MathNet.Numerics which the former depends on. Those packages should support recent F# and Mono on Linux.

I do not recommend to use our Linux MKL NuGet package as we cannot update it anymore (lack of Linux license right now). Instead consider to build from source - or better, help us provide proper Linux ATLAS builds and packages :)

Assuming you have Mono installed and a local copy of nuget.exe (sic!):

mono nuget.exe install MathNet.Numerics.FSharp -Pre -OutputDirectory packages

Or just download the assemblies in a zip file.