Quantcast
Channel: Active questions tagged windows-subsystem-for-linux - Ask Ubuntu
Browsing all 2893 articles
Browse latest View live

Windows 10 - Linux graphical interface Gnome WSL [duplicate]

How to install the graphical interface Gnome on Windows for Linux(WSL)?

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

\\wsl.localhost is not accessible. Open folder error

I want to access wsl folder in File Explorer however I got this error\wsl.localhost is not accessible. You might not have permission touse this network resource. Contact the administrator of this...

View Article


CH340 Serial device doesn't appear in /dev/ (WSL)

I have an arduino nano clone with a CH340 serial chip. It appears in lsusb as QinHeng Electronics HL-340 USB-Serial adapter and when it connects I can see it in dmesg with the following logging:[...

View Article

Change default user on WSL

When I start my terminal, I am in my root user, I then have to use the command su to go to my username. Is there way to change this that will start my terminal in my username instead of root?

View Article

Visual studio code command doesn't work on WSL 2

For some reason, when I type the command code . from a WSL terminal I have the message:Command is only available in WSL or inside a Visual Studio Code terminal.After some research, I tried to fix it...

View Article


Building Firefox fails on `checking for nodejs`

I'm trying to build Mozilla Firefox (ver. 129.0) on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL) version 22.04. I run the build using ./mach build and the error below. I trying reinstalling NodeJS with sudo apt install...

View Article

Route POSTMAN traffic from Windows to WSL2

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 under Windows Subsystem for Linux. I have a VPN running inside Ubuntu to access an API on a remote system.This VPN only works with a Linux client app. I want to try the API...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Large size of CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu

I am using Ubuntu in WSL. On my disk C, CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu_79rhkp1fndgsc is occupying 250 GB on my computer.I think this is a lot, since on Ubuntu I do not have more than 20 GB of files.How...

View Article


Ubuntu desktop (gnome) with wsl

Is it possible to install and use Ubuntu desktop (preferably Gnome) via wsl. I don't just want to start individual Ubuntu apps, but work completely via Ubuntu Desktop.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

OpenSSL uninstalled but I get OpenSSL configuration error

I am in Windows/WSL Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS. Even though I have uninstalled openssl I get the errornode: OpenSSL configuration error:4048371EB67F0000:error:8000000D:system library:BIO_new_file:Permission...

View Article

/usr/bin/node can't run due to an Exec format error

On Ubuntu 22.04 over windows (WSL) when I try to run node I get the error:-bash: /usr/bin/node: cannot execute binary file: Exec format errorI tried to reinstall it with sudo apt install --reinstall...

View Article

How do I solve the blinking of the cursor in terminal? [duplicate]

I used a grep an incomplete grep command "grep hello" now the cursor moved to the next line and it is doing nothing but sitting there only. Can't even exit out of it.Now whatever I type it just get...

View Article

Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04 without a snap install

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 on a WSLv1 system, which does not support snap:$ snap listInteracting with snapd is not yet supported on Windows Subsystem for Linux 1.This command has been left available for...

View Article


How can an install MicroStack on WSL2 Windows 11Pro

How can an install MicroStack on WSL2 Windows 11Pro. I don’t think I know what I’m doing because the logs are stating Error, Unable to install. It doesn’t seem to be as easy as double clicking the .exe...

View Article

I'm unable to launch qemu after installation

so i type this command in wsl <qemu-system-x86_64> and it should open the qemu window as usual but it doesn't instead it gives this error Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection...

View Article


How can I mount a removable USB drive in WSL?

So I've gone through this tutorial and have gotten USBIPD up and running on Windows 11 and the Ubuntu WSL container. Now, how can I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in WSL so that File Explorer can see...

View Article

"Error: 0x80080005 Server execution failed" while installing Ubuntu on Windows

While installing Ubuntu app on Windows, I'm encountering this error:Installing, this may take a few minutes...WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80080005Error: 0x80080005 Server execution...

View Article


WSL terminal displays subdirectory not present in Windows Explorer

I installed Linux shell using WSL. Cloned my repo and built project. Issue is not everything within project directory is present in Windows and subsequently IntelliJ.Let's say I'm working on directory...

View Article

do-release-upgrade runs a bit and then hangs on WSL2

My WSL2 currently has a single distribution - Ubuntu 18.04. I wish to upgrade it in place to the latest and so I ran the steps described in...

View Article

How to change the default directory that WSL Ubuntu terminal (on Windows 10)...

I installed the WSL Bash on Windows 10 so it can act as my terminal in VScode, but the default directory is ~/home/USERNAMEI would like it to be /mnt/c/Users/USERNAME (so on my windows domain side)I've...

View Article
Browsing all 2893 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>