For the PIC series microcontrollers, the development environment has MPLAB IDE (old) and MPLAB X IDE (new). Based on the principle of using the new instead of the old, just download MPLAB X IDE directly.
Download URL: https://www.microchip.com/development-tools/pic-and-dspic-downloads-archive
Here you can see various versions of MPLAB X IDE in various environments (Windows, Mac, Linux)
My Computer It is win7 64 bit, so I downloaded the latest MPLAB X v5.40 from windows
There are more than nine hundred megabytes downloaded.
The next step is to double-click to install:
Simplified Chinese is very intimate, since the official has simplified Chinese, then you can install the Chinese version directly.
The installation path selection, the old rules, do not install on the C drive, the installation path.
Double-click to open
Note: If it prompts that the Java environment is missing when it is opened, please install JRE 9.0 or higher by yourself.