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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 Undoubtedly, they will become outdated, so use them with caution after the course ends.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 check which version of OS X you have are given in the first link.

Get Java

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

Get Eclipse

Download 64-bit Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/^{Image Removed} 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.

Get Cplex

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