Installation of NLopt python module for Linux

Installation of NLopt python module for Linux

1. Install SWIG (follow instructions: http://swig.org/svn.html)
1. cd ~
2. git clone https://github.com/swig/swig.git
3. cd swig
4. ./autogen.sh ( sudo apt-get install automake [if aclocal not found])
5. ./configure --prefix=<absolute path to current dir> --without-pcre
6. make
7. sudo apt-get install bison -y && sudo apt-get install byacc -y [if yacc not found]
8. make install
2. export PATH=$PATH:~/swig
3. Install NLopt: (follow instructions: https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt)

1. git clone https://github.com/stevengj/nlopt.git
2. cd nlopt
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3.6 ..
6. make
7. sudo make install

       Note: copy the nlopt.py and _nlopt.so files to the desired dist-packages