Having Trouble While Installing Root Software On My PC

[dastudillo]

What exactly did you download (what file, from which page/link), and how are you trying to install it?
ROOT 6 will not simply install and run on Windows 10 like any software you download; you can either run it with VisualStudio or with WSL (Linux on Windows); for WSL (which I prefer, but depends on each user ), check out this thread:

Complete ROOT Installation Instructions for WSL (Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows 10)

From @olifre : Install WSL ( https://aka.ms/install ) and then Ubuntu 18.04 from the Windows Store. The first step is not needed anymore for most recent Windows 10 versions, I think. Start the freshly installed Ubuntu Bash shell and install the dependencies and some build tools: sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install build-essential libtbb-dev libtiff5 x11-apps git Now there’s no graphics, since WSL does not ship any X server. You can fix that e.g. by installing Xming and…