Installing MPLAB® IPE

64-bit Windows is required for reasonable performance using MPLAB^® X IDE. MPLAB X IDE can run on a 32-bit Windows installation, but will likely experience slower performance. It is recommended to update the operating system to 64-bit Windows prior to installing MPLAB X IDE.

Download MPLAB® X Installer

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Run the Installer

Choose your operating system from the tabs below:

Run Installer

Go to the location where you downloaded the installer. Unzip the downloaded file and run the installer:
MPLABX-vX.XX-windows-installer.exe.

Depending on your Windows security settings, you may get a window asking if you are sure you want to run this program. Click Yes.

Setup

Click Next >.

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License Agreement

Click the I accept the agreement radio button.

Click Next >.

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Installation Directory

By default, MPLAB® X IDE will be installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\MPLABX. If you would prefer a different directory, click on the folder icon to the right of the text box and select the desired installation location.

Click Next >.

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Select Programs

If you only want to install MPLAB X IDE or MPLAB IPE, check or uncheck the appropriate boxes. Generally, you should install both programs.

Click Next >.

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Ready to Install

Click Next >.

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Installing

Wait until the installer has finished installing all components of the IDE.

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Permit Device Driver Installation

The USB device drivers are required to communicate with Microchip's hardware development tools.
Check the Always trust software from Microchip Technology box to prevent this dialog from appearing in the future.

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Complete

Leave the box checked if you want to have your web browser opened to the Microchip MPLAB XC compiler download page to download a compiler for use with MPLAB X IDE.

Uncheck the box if you already have a compiler or want to download one later.

Click Finish.

Installation is complete. There will be icons for MPLAB X IDE, MPLAB IPE, and the MPLAB Driver Switcher on the desktop. There will also be launchers in the Windows/Start menu under All Programs > Microchip > MPLAB X IDE.

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If you have already installed MPLAB X IDE, but are unable to communicate with our USB connected hardware tools, see step 9 of the installation instructions below for a possible solution.

If you are running a 64-bit distribution without multiarch support, you may need to install dependencies before you can run the installer.

Untar and Run Installer

Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the file and extract the shell script from the .tar file by running the following command:

tar -xvf MPLABX-vX.XX-linux-installer.tar

You may need to make the file executable. If so, run the command:

chmod u+x MPLABX-vX.XX-linux-installer.sh

Then as root or using sudo, run the installer:

sudo ./MPLABX-vX.XX-linux-installer.sh

If you have problems running the graphical installer, you can run the installer in text mode instead by specifying "text" as the mode parameter value (where 2.XX is the installer version):
sudo ./MPLABX-vX.XX-linux-installer.sh --mode text

Setup

Click Next >.

If you don't have Java or the open source IcedTea installed, the installer will run in text mode in the terminal. You don't need to install Java for MPLAB X IDE to run. A special version of Java will be installed in the mplabx directory exclusively for use by MPLAB X IDE. It will not interfere with existing Java or IcedTea installations.

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License Agreement

Click the radio button next to "I accept the agreement".

Click Next >.

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Installation Directory

By default, MPLAB X will be installed at /opt/microchip/mplabx. If you would prefer a different directory, click on the folder icon to the right of the text box and select the desired installation location.

Click Next >.

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Ready to Install

Click Next >.

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Installing

Wait until the installer has finished installing all components of the IDE.

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Reboot Advisory

Click OK.

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Complete

Click Finish.

Installation is complete.
The package was installed into: /opt/microchip/mplabx
The executables reside in: /opt/microchip/mplabx/mplab_ide/bin

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For Linux distributions that use systemd, the systemd-udevd unit may be setup to avoid inter-process communications via sockets for security reasons. Recently Ubuntu 18.04LTS has been shipped in this way. This is a change from 17.10. Other distributions like Manjaro are also shipped with blocked inter-process communications via systemd. MPLAB X IPE and IDE rely on the systemd-udevd unit for plug and play. MPLAB X software has udev rules that allow a program to run on plug-and-play notifications. This program relies on sockets to communicate with MPLAB X IDE and IPE. So, to have working plug-and-play in MPLAB X software, you need to re-enable socket communications.

You can do this by adding an override file for systemd-udevd.

$ sudo systemctl edit systemd-udevd

This will open an editor and will create an override.conf file. In the override file, include the following lines:

Then re-start the service:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Finally check the override.conf has been loaded:

$ sudo systemctl status systemd-udevd

● systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service.d
           └─override.conf

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