{"id":749,"date":"2019-02-05T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.ronella.xyz\/apps\/wordpress\/?p=749"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T22:16:32","slug":"installing-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Install Linux Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to install any <strong>Linux distributions<\/strong> for <strong>WSL<\/strong> ensure that the <strong>Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux<\/strong> optional feature is enabled using the following procedure:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a <strong>PowerShell<\/strong> as <strong>Administrator<\/strong> and run the following <em>(i.e. if it is not installed)<\/em>:\n<pre style=\"white-space: pre;\">Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restart<\/strong> the computer when prompted.<\/li>\n<li>Open the <strong>Microsoft Store<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Search for the <strong>Linux distribution<\/strong> <em>(e.g. Ubuntu)<\/em> you like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Click it<\/strong> and the click the <strong>Install button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>After finishing the installation search for it in the <strong>Start menu<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Usually the newly installed application is at the top of the start menu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to install any Linux distributions for WSL ensure that the Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux optional feature is enabled using the following procedure: Open a PowerShell as Administrator and run the following (i.e. if it is not installed): Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Restart the computer when prompted. Open the Microsoft Store Search for the Linux distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ronella.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}