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Update: Windows 11 and Windows 10 21H2 now include the ability to install some distributions directly from the command-line without a Microsoft Account. wsl --list --online # Or wsl -l -v ... to get a list of available distributions to install. wsl --install --distribution Ubuntu ... to install Ubuntu directly. Older Windows versions:
My WSL installation on windows10 is failing with below error code . >wsl.exe --install -d Ubuntu Installing: Ubuntu An error occurred during installation.
Are you using a proxy? I had the same issue and did the following steps: Configure Proxy Settings in WSL: You need to configure WSL to use your proxy server. You can do this by setting the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables within WSL. Open your .bashrc file in WSL using a text editor:
I can tell you that I just tried it on my WSL/Ubuntu 20.04 and it worked properly, so there are two possibilities that I can think of: The repo didn't get updated properly on your system. There was a temporary failure in the repo when you were trying to install. Since I was able to do it successfully, I'd suggest you just try again:
If you just need terminal access to WSL from a remote machine, then here's a far easier solution: Install OpenSSH server in Windows (instructions). Access your WSL instance remotely using ssh -t windows_user@windows_host wsl. That just connects to the Windows host, allocates a pseudo-terminal with -t, and runs the wsl command using that pseudo ...
This is WSL Ubuntu 22.04. There shouldn't be a *.cmd anything. Online everybody who claims to know tells me use apt install python3-pip. This just installs python3.10 even though the article was about getting python3.8. Everywhere I look specifically for how to do it on WSL, they either don't tell me anything different, or they leave pip out.
If all else fails, the main "workaround" that has been successful for many people is to install Ubuntu under WSL1, then convert it to WSL2. Since you are on Windows 11, WSL1 may not longer be installed (it is still, currently, on Windows 10).
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WSL is still a work in progress. Until recently there has been no support for GUI applications. If your goal is to install a desktop environment, WSL is really not a good choice especially if you are "a beginner to Linux". If you want to run Ubuntu Desktop on Windows, it's going to be much easier and stable to run Ubuntu on a VM like VirtualBox.
I have a Ubuntu app, installed on my Windows-10 machine. As far as versions are concerned, this is the result of uname -a: Linux <username> 4.4.0-17134-Microsoft #523-Microsoft Mon Dec 31 17...