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

Post-install steps

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

• 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 \
  fzf bat jq eza ripgrep zoxide \
  htop fastfetch hwinfo
  

  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.

• 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