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These instructions were lasted tested on ?? Mac OS X version 10.6.8 on January ??2, 2013. Undoubtedly, they will become outdated, so use them with caution after the course ends.

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According to this website, all Macs on OS X 10.5 or greater have a 64 bit operating system and a 64 bit processor, so if your Mac is from 2007 or later then you will probably be fine. If your Mac is from before 2007, you would need an earlier version of Cplex than the one that we require. Instructions to checking check which version of OS X you have are given in the first link.

Get Java

TODOOS X comes with Java installed, so you should already have it.

Get Eclipse

Download 64-bit Eclipse from here. Install?? and open the program. When the program opens, it will ask you to select a workspace. This is the location on your computer where the source code for all of your java projects will be stored. The default on my computer was

/Users/<yourusername>/Applications/IBM/ILOG/CPLEX_Studio125/

but you can change this to be stored anywhere.TODO

Get Cplex

Select

IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio V12.5 for Mac OS 10 Multilingual (CIC4UML)(is this 32 bit or 64 bit? There only seems to be one option...)

Scroll to the bottom and accept the licence agreement, then hit download. A java applet will pop up to manage the download. If you get an error in the applet saying your java is out of date and a second pop up, hit OK until the second pop up goes away then it Run anyway on the applet. Again, if you can't get the applet to work, just select Http Transfer instead of Download Director as the Download Method. The download could take as long as half an hour.

When the download has finished, run the .bin file from the download. The Download Director will indicate the directory where the final was downloaded. On my machine, the default location (I used Chrome Firefox and did not use the Download Director) was

??/Users/angela/Downloads/cplex_studio125.macos.bin

To run the file, you first must make it executable. TODO: how do to this...To run the file, TODO: ?? From a terminal, simply go to the directory where the file is located, then type chmod a+x cplex_studio125.macos.bin. To run the file, from a terminal in the directory of the file, type sudo ./cplex_studio125.macos.bin. Be sure to run as root, otherwise you will not have permission to install in the default directory.

Note the directory of installation. The default on my machine was:

/opt/ibmUsers/angela/Applications/IBM/ILOG/CPLEX_Studio125