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The Solver is an excellent tool that is included in the office suite of Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Excel, and performs quite similar to the implementation of Goal Programming WinQSB.

Recently I had the need to use this supplement as linear programming support in my work and work of the University, and one of my problems when using Solver is that on my laptop I do not have the package of Microsoft Office, nay, not even use Windows. Then came the curious: Is it possible to use Solver in Open Ofice?

Of course it is possible, in the spreadsheet application Calc of OpenOffice . You can use this add-on, but not natively. The creator of the " Solver for OpenOffice "is Kohei Yoshida , who has had some disagreements with the company owns OpenOffice (Sun Microsystems) and have not reached any fix for this office suite that includes the extension programmed by Yoshida.

However, you can also add the Solver to a previously installed version of OpenOffice, just add a package to install. The package, weighing only 2.1 MB , and once installed is able to perform the same functions as Microsoft Excel Solver, but in OpenOffice.org Calc . You can access the official site to download OpenOffice Solver from this link . The latest stable developed corresponds to May 2008, is compatible with OpenOffice.org installations on Windows and Linux systems with x86 architecture, and is automatically adapted to the language of your installation of OpenOffice.

Once you've installed the package, you can access the Solver for OpenOffice.org Calc through Tools -> Solver. Annex also capture OpenOffice running Solver from OpenSUSE Linux 11.