@LK_877 #Bug #Hackaround cut and paste from message that left the picture behind #eyeroll Here is what my screen looks like, there are other hard to get to and clunky scrolling(not scrolling very well columns off the page

When #proprietary vendor #software seems to be an unpacking #chaellenge:

https://www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-x-ide

They present you with 4 archives in a tar.gz in a shell script in a tar archive to be extracted with some (32bit) #tclkit based scripts. And of course they bundle Java with their IDE. Oh dear..

#Microchip should be avoided.

Also see https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=microchip-mplabx-bin for a lightweight #hackaround, pragmatically puting the #crap in a #fakeroot.

MPLAB- X IDE | Microchip Technology