How to install cvxopt on on windows 10 on python 3.6

Question

How do I install cvxopt on windows 10 on python 3.6?

When running

conda install cvxopt

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Answer 1

After much trial and error, I found that we need to install both the numpy+mkl package and the appropriate cvxopt from:

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

Download the file, then do the following:

1) in a command line go to the downloads folder

2) pip install "numpy-1.13.1+mkl-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl"

3) pip install "cvxopt-1.1.9-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl"