To enable bash in Windows 10: Click the Start button , click Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Turn Windows features on or off. Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux To get Bash installed, open Command Prompt and type “bash” For More Information visit : Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Run Bash on … Read more
When the Windows Store opened, there was no Distro to choose, then I found this command lxrun /install and worked for me as well. You will get something like this as an output:
You need an X server to run graphical applications like gedit. I use VcXsrv or Xming on my Windows desktops, both are very small and easy to install, but there exist other servers like Cygwin/X. Short instructions for VcXsrv/Xming: download and install the Windows package start XLaunch or Xming export the DISPLAY variable in your WSL terminal and start geditexport DISPLAY=0:0 … Read more
Instead, use: sudo service redis-server start I had the same problem, stopping/starting other services from within Ubuntu on WSL. This worked, where systemctl did not. And one could reasonably wonder, “how would you know that the service name was ‘redis-server’?” You can see them using service –status-all