Configs

WSL Ubuntu

Install Ubuntu via WSL

As per Microsoft’s WSL install guide:

Go into Windows Features, turn on Windows Subsystem for Linux and then restart computer

• Open Terminal as Admin and in PowerShell:
• Install WSL: wsl --install
• View available distros: wsl -l --online
• Might have to run this before: wsl --update
• Install WSL with default distro (Ubuntu): wsl --install
  • You can specify distro as: wsl --install -d Ubuntu
• Restart computer
• After restart, open Terminal. Open the Ubuntu tab
• For setup, it’ll ask you to provide username (mine was kumar-wsl) and password
• Update packages: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Note the different Windows native and WSL home folders

Terminal	Windows native home	WSL home
PowerShell	~ or C:\Users\kumar	\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\kumar-wsl
Git-Bash	~ or /c/Users/kumar	/\\wsl.localhost/Ubuntu/home/kumar-wsl
WSL	/mnt/c/Users/kumar	~ or /home/kumar-wsl

Post-install steps

• Edit the .bashrc and paste config contents such as my .bashrc file

• Install packages: fastfetch, build-essential

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install wget curl git tmux zip unzip build-essential net-tools fzf jq bat ripgrep eza bat htop fastfetch hwinfo
  # zoxide install script
  curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/main/install.sh | sh
  

  The build-essential contains a list of packages dependencies that are required to create a Debian package (.deb) . These packages are libc, gcc, g++, make, dpkg-dev etc.

  The bat package is installed under name batcat in Ubuntu due to name clash. So creat symlink as below:

  mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
  ln -s /usr/bin/batcat ~/.local/bin/bat
  

• Type exit to close WSL Ubuntu session

• See output of lsblk to know your distro is mounted at /mnt/wslg/distro. Your usual local Windows files in C drive are available at /mnt/c

Alacritty

• Install:

  winget install -e --id Alacritty.Alacritty
  

• On Windows, the config file will be looked for in: %APPDATA%\alacritty\alacritty.toml. To know value of that variable, open CMD and run echo %APPDATA%. You will see output as C:\Users\kumar\AppData\Roaming

• So, create config file AppData/Roaming/alacritty/alacritty.toml via Git-Bash as:

  mkdir -p ~/AppData/Roaming/alacritty
  touch ~/AppData/Roaming/alacritty/alacritty.toml
  

Dev-softwares

• Download the archive file into Windows Downloads folder
• Open Terminal inside that folder, and enter wsl
• Now follow the rest of the steps of Linux guide inside your WSL considering this folder location