Extract it to a temp folder using 7-Zip or another tool of your choice. To manually install, I downloaded the appx file for 16.04, rename the file extension to zip. Hopefully by that time someone at universal robots will read my crazy instructions and officially support running ursim on windows. You can always check which version to use by running the command above. However, in the future when the URSim is updated, you may have be required to upgrade to a newer version. Therefore, to make things compatible you will also want to use 16.04. I have a hunch that the URControl binary file was compiled using the gcc version common for the 16.04 release.

I discovered that the VM image was using Ubuntu 16.04. Just for clarity, I determined which Ubuntu version to use by downloading the entire starter package, running the virtual machine in VMWare player and at the bash prompt I used the command: I originally tried using Ubuntu 18 but it failed.

In my case I had to manually install the Ubuntu 16.04 distro because the windows store was not working on my pc which appears to be a common issue. I have only tested this on one machine so far so your mileage may vary… Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux

I thought I would share the instructions I typed up in case it helps someone else out in the future. After some trial and error I figured out how to get ursim to run on Windows 10.

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