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By downloading polymake in any form (whether source code or compiled) you agree to be bound by the GPL license agreement, version 2 or (at your option) any later version; further you renounce to claim any kind of warranty or damages related to the use of this software.

Software libraries bundled with polymake are protected by open source licenses adequate to the GPL or broader. However, the exact wording and restrictions to use may vary. Please consult the corresponding COPYING or README files included in the external subdirectory of the distribution.

Support queries concerning installation and usage are welcome (please use our forum), as well as any other feedback, but are served on voluntary base, depending, first of all, on the authors' free time resources.

A polymake newbie? Installation problems? Just curious? Try polymake online! The online version runs as a “shell in a box” in your browser. No installation needed!
Examples of polymake code are available on the tutorial page. Notice that the online version comes with a few restrictions (including missing visualization) compared to the complete version.

Stable versions are released on a regular basis and offer the complete functionality of polymake available at the point of release. You can read about new features in the release notes here.

• Read the Installation instructions
• Download the source tarball

The minimal version is a packager friendly version which omits the bundled sources of cdd, lrs, libnormaliz, nauty and jReality.

• Download the minimal source tarball

The polymake sources are also available on Zenodo.

We now provide prebuilt tarballs that can be extracted and run on Linux and macOS.

You can also install polymake using the MaPS system.

First get polymake using

maps --deploy org.polymake.polymake/x86_64/4.13

Then run this container using

maps --run org.polymake.polymake/x86_64/4.13

NOTE: Provision of binaries is currently limited. Building from the sources has been tested and works. You can just use our homebrew tap or follow the instructions below.

You have two options: Install via our tap for Homebrew, or use the polymake ready to run tarballs.

If you have installed Homebrew already (or just do it by copying the one line from their page), you can get polymake via our tap.

Note: If you have previously installed a self compiled version of polymake into the standard installation location /usr/local, then you must delete this version first (also if you used brew for the installation of dependencies, but not for polymake itself, as was the recommend procedure until 2020). Otherwise brew will refuse to install the executable, which leaves you with a broken polymake.

brew tap apaffenholz/polymake
brew install polymake

The formula has binaries for Intel/Monterey, Intel/Sonoma and M1/Sonoma (thanks to the sage project). All other variants compile polymake from the sources.

Note: if you already have or had a version of polymake installed on your Mac you must reconfigure polymake on the first start with

polymake --reconfigure

Read the Installation instructions on how to compile the current version of polymake yourself.

If you use Safari as your default browser, then you need to switch to another one for polymake. Please do

set_custom $Visual::webbrowser=open -a "Firefox"

inside the polymake shell. Replace Firefox by Google Chrome if you prefer this browser.

We are proud to announce that polymake is also part of the package library of the Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Ubuntu distributions and can be installed from their corresponding package managers. Thanks to the maintainers!

• On Debian or Ubuntu, try

  sudo apt-get install polymake

• On Fedora, try

  sudo dnf install polymake

• On Gentoo, try

  su
  emerge -p polymake
  emerge polymake

Remark: The callable library version is part of any polymake source release but might not be included in all versions distributed via packaging systems.

The preferred way to install polymake in Windows 10 or 11 systems is under the Linux Subsystem. Both Ubuntu and Debian have polymake in their repositories. Install Ubuntu under Windows 10 or 11, then download the Ubuntu package with

sudo apt-get install polymake

This version may not be up to date. If you need the latest version, install the stable release from sources as explained in the previous section.

Remark: Visualization in the Linux Subsystem does not work out of the box because of several issues. The current workaround is

• if still Windows 10: to load this polymake script (this requires Windows 10 version 1903),
• install the package wslu with sudo apt-get install wslu and use this polymake script ,

that adapts the paths and uses a native windows program for opening the resulting file. You may load this script automatically at the beginning of every polymake session by adding a line

script("$ENV{HOME}/path/to/wslviewer.pl");

to your personal startup file $HOME/.polymake/prefer.pl file (since polymake 4.4 this file is renamed to init.pl and must be activated via custom variable $init_script). Please be aware that this script is still work in progress and works only for threejs, tikz and svg at the moment.

Note that you may have to additionally install texlive, if you want to use the tikz backend (with sudo apt-get install texlive) and libsvg-perl for svg (with sudo apt-get install libsvg-perl). Not also that, if you install one of these packages after you have started polymake for the first time, you may have to do a reconfigure “common::pdfviewer”; or reconfigure “common::svg”; in the polymake shell to use the backend.

Docker allows to run a pre-built image on Linux, Mac OS, and since recently also Windows. Our images are built every night from the stable master branch and come along with virtually all additional third-party software recommended for computational tasks. Please read the detailed instructions to become aware of known caveats and limitations. Download the starter script and enjoy the latest and greatest stable polymake snapshot instantaneously.

There is a dedicated interface Polymake.jl for using polymake from Julia.

The polymake releases can also be found on github.

• Information about external software used in polymake is located here.
• Extensions to polymake for specific tasks can be found here
• Data in polymake format is collected here.
• Older polymake downloads can be found here.