# Installing Julia 1.10.5 on a 2011 Mac Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 14, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404 "2024-09-14T13:44:02Z")
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### Author:  [@VivMendes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VivMendes)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/1 "2024-09-14T13:44:02Z")
Hi, I have a student who has a 2011 Mac Pro with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 processor. She installed Julia v 1.10.5, but it failed when she tried to run it. She tried the installation using the two alternatives: manually and juliaup.
Does anyone know if installing Julia 1.10.5 on such an old machine is not possible?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@abraemer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abraemer)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/2 "2024-09-14T14:26:55Z")
I do not know whether Julia works for this laptop in particular but I think it is supposed to work.
Nowadays juliaup is the recommend way of installing Julia. I think there is a chance that juliaup failed due to some things she tried beforehand when she wanted to install Julia manually. I suggest removing all Julia and juliaup related files and trying again. Not sure where they live on Mac - on Linux you just need to delete `~/.julia` and `~/.juliaup`.
If it still fails, please post the error message or try to describe exactly what you mean by “it failed”.
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### Author:  [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/3 "2024-09-14T14:38:24Z")
Julia only works in macos 10.14+ or newer.
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/4 "2024-09-14T15:55:45Z")
Yes, to elaborate you can find the table of supported systems by the latest stable version of julia in the [downloads page](https://julialang.org/downloads/#supported_platforms), and 10.14 is indeed the minimum supported version of macOS, that’s actually a [requirement coming from LLVM](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/pull/5592#issuecomment-1309525112).
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### Author:  [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/5 "2024-09-14T16:07:10Z")
Here the [hardware requirements](https://macswire.com/macos-system-requirements/) for different Mac models. The oldest Macs compatible with 10.14 are from 2012, so she is out of luck.
My experience as long time Mac user: Macs have a useful life span of about 8…10 years - which is not bad. After that software updates getting increasingly problematic.
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### Author:  [@mike.ingold](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mike.ingold)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/6 "2024-09-14T16:21:48Z")
Now we know that compatibility is likely the problem, but in the short term a student presumably still needs to get the work done. A short term solution may be to have them check out a cloud-based service like JuliaHub which provides some number of free hours per month for access to a Pluto environment and web-based VS Code (“Julia IDE”).
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### Author:  [@VivMendes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VivMendes)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/7 "2024-09-14T17:44:29Z")
Thanks, everybody. We have installed Julia on pretty old machines, but not this time. I will mark Oscar’s entry as the solution because he was the first to provide an answer. Thanks to @giordano for the link. I did not know about it.
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### Author:  [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-julia-1-10-5-on-a-2011-mac-pro-2-3-ghz-intel-core-i5/119404/8 "2024-09-14T17:54:46Z")
macOS 10.9 was once supported, but I’m not sure it’s enough or if even older was supported.
I’m not sure if she can or already upgraded to that version, then you can look unto running on the older Julia version supporting it, or even try down to Julia 1.0…
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> Refs https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/40400