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Steps For Installing Ubuntu WSL

This document provides a 17 step guide to install Ubuntu on Windows (WSL) and configure it. The steps include: enabling WSL in Windows features, downloading Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, setting the WSL version to 2, creating a username and password for Ubuntu, updating and upgrading Ubuntu, optionally installing a text editor like gedit or Xming server, exporting the DISPLAY variable, and verifying the text editor works to open and edit files.

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Steps For Installing Ubuntu WSL

This document provides a 17 step guide to install Ubuntu on Windows (WSL) and configure it. The steps include: enabling WSL in Windows features, downloading Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, setting the WSL version to 2, creating a username and password for Ubuntu, updating and upgrading Ubuntu, optionally installing a text editor like gedit or Xming server, exporting the DISPLAY variable, and verifying the text editor works to open and edit files.

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Steps for installing

Ubuntu on
Windows (WSL)
Fundamentals of Computing
Prepared by: Aseel Abu Haq
Edit by: Eng.OmarAlKafaween
Step 1
 Go to the “search”
menu, search for
“Control Panel” and
click on it.
Step 2

 Click on the “programs”


icon.
Step 3
 Go to the “Programs
and Features” icon,
then select “Turn
Windows Features on or
off”.
Step 4
 Put tick on the
“Window Subsystem for
Linux” option.
 Put a tick on each of
the following options
too: "Windows
Hypervisor Platform"
and "Virtual Machine
Platform"
Step 5

 Go to “Microsoft Store”
icon
Step 6
 Search for “Ubuntu”.
 Select “Ubuntu 20.04.5
LTS” Version.
Step 7

 Click on the “Get” icon


then install it.
Step 8
 After installing Ubuntu, download the following program to upgrade it:
https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windo ws.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi
 Run the program you just installed to upgrade Ubuntu.
Step 9
 On Windows, run Windows Power
Shell – search for it in the search bar
in Windows as shown in picture 1.
 Type the following command in
Windows Power Shell as shown in
picture 2 and press Enter:
"wsl --set-default-version 2"
Step 10
 Open Ubuntu. Search for
it in the Search bar on
Windows or open it
from the Microsoft
Store.
Step 11
 Choose a username and
a password.

 The password will not


show up when you type it

 Make sure to remember


the username and
password.
Step 12
 Run these two commands
one by one as shown in the
figures.
"sudo apt update"
"sudo apt upgrade"
 We use these two commands
to update and upgrade the
tools in “Ubuntu”.
Step 13
 “gedit” is the text editor
we will use to edit files.

 Download it first as
shown in the first picture.

 Use the “gedit”


command followed by
the name of the file you
want to open as shown in
second picture.
Step 14
 This step is optional if the “gedit”
command doesn’t work.
 Download “Xming ” server.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
 Install the Xming server from the
file you downloaded.
Step 15

 Run the XLaunch program. Search


for it in the search bar on Windows.
 Click next until you reach the step
in the figure to the right.
 Put a check on "No Access Control"
and click Next then Finish.
Step 16
 Open Ubuntu. Write the command like in picture 1:
"nano ~/.bashrc"
 This will open a text editor that has text inside. Go
to the bottom of the file and add the following line
(on one line):
export DISPLAY=$(grep -m 1 nameserver
/etc/resolv.conf | awk '{print $2}'):0.0
like picture2.

 Use CTRL + O then press Enter to Save.

 Press CTRL + X to Exit.


Step 17
 Exit Ubuntu and open it again.

 Now try using the “gedit”


command followed by the name
of the file you want to open as
shown in picture.
 A text editor should open now.
You can write your code inside
it.
 Now you can just use "gedit"
anytime you want to open a file
to write code.

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