Thanks for responding so quickly. I reinstalled julia on my ubuntu system and now of course it works
But the windows version still fails:
ERROR: Failed to precompile DifferentialEquations to C:\Users\Owner.julia\lib\v0.6\DifferentialEquations.ji
Stacktrace:
[1] compilecache(::String) at .\loading.jl:710
[2] _require(::Symbol) at .\loading.lj:497
[3] require(::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:405
I am not sure whats going wrong but I think its on my end. Given I have it working on ubuntu now you can close this topic.