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I wanted to ask about the installation of one of most important open source freeware for discrete choice modeling data estimation: Biogeme.

I am trying to install it on my machine (Thinkpad x201, 8gb, Intel i5 dual 2.7GHz) running Ubuntu 16.04.

After installing it from the .deb file provided at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/home.html , I run it from a terminal and I get the following:

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biogeme 2.4 [Mon Nov 2 00:56:45 CET 2015]
Michel Bierlaire, EPFL
-- Compiled by bierlair on Linux
See http://biogeme.epfl.ch
                    !! CFSQP is available !!
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    "In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug."


[12:58:57]patBiogeme.cc:134  Read default.par
Warning:  Error: File sample.dat is missing

Warning:  Error: File sample.dat is missing

Warning:  Error: File sample.dat is missing

while if I try to compile it as explained here: http://biogeme.epfl.ch/install.html

I get the following error while running the make command:

libtool:   error: 'patLegendre.lo' is not a valid libtool object
Makefile:778: set of instructions for "libbisonbiogeme.la" failed

make[2]: *** [libbisonbiogeme.la] Errore 1
Makefile:441: set of instructions for "install-recursive" failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Errore 1

I don't know if anybody can help, any support would be appreciated!

Thank you very much

Andrea Ciccorelli
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    In the first instance, try locating + changing to the directory that contains the sample.dat file before running the program. If you still want help compiling from source after that, then you will need to post the actual error message. – steeldriver May 09 '16 at 13:08
  • I wasn't able to locate it.. Since running biogeme in the terminal generates the default.par file every time, maybe it is supposed to do the same with the sample.dat? You're right about the error message for compiling, I'll post it thanks. – Andrea Ciccorelli May 09 '16 at 13:54
  • Possibly related to https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/biogeme/conversations/topics/1871?l=1 – Nick Weinberg Jun 01 '16 at 15:56

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To install the biogeme program, download the deb file at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/distrib/biogeme_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb and run sudo dpkg -i biogeme_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb. This will install the necessary binaries to your /usr/local/bin directory.

As can be seen in section 4 of page 6 of the PDF at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/documentation/bisonfirstmodel-2.4.pdf, to use the program, you need to provide biogeme with two arguments: a model and a .dat file. Following section 4 of page 6 of the aforementioned PDF, we will use the logit model and the data file for the Swissmetro example, which can be found at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/examples_swissmetro.html. First, download the 01logit model file at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/bison/01logit.mod. Second, download the swissmetro.dat data file at http://biogeme.epfl.ch/swissmetro.dat. Third, run biogeme 01logit swissmetro.dat. Notice that the program will tell you that 01logit.par does not exist and it will try to use default.par instead (and if default.par is missing, it will create it and then use it). This behavior is expected as stated in the second bullet point of page 7 of the aforementioned PDF.

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