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The following steps can help to set up the environment listed in the Contribution guide

- A GitHub account.
- A Linux, macOS, or Microsoft Windows development environment
- Java JDK 8 installed
- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) installed for some tasks including building worker containers and testing this website
changes locally.
- For SDK Development:
- [Go](https://golang.org) 1.20 or later installed for Go SDK development
- Python 3.7, and 3.8, and 3.11. Yes, you need all three versions installed.
- pip, setuptools, virtualenv, and tox installed for Python development
- For large contributions, a signed [Individual Contributor License
Agreement](https://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf) (ICLA) to the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF).

For MacOS

1. Install Java 8, Go 1.1220, pyenv and Docker using homebrew.
   1. Check the following tutorial How to install Java 8 on Mac.

2. Use pyenv to install the python versions, 3.7, 3.8.
   

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3. Use pip (installed when installing pyenv) to install setuptools, virtualenv, and tox.
4. Clone the apache beam project from https://github.com/apache/beam 

   using main branch. 

   1. cd into the /beam root project

5. Execute the following commands:
   
   

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   ./gradlew projects

   
   

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   ./gradlew tasks

   
   

6. To make sure Java environment is correctly installed, execute:

   
   

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   ./gradlew -p sdks/java/io/cassandra check

   
   

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   ./gradlew -p runners/flink check

   
   

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