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Tejas Chaudhari
Tejas Chaudhari

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WSL2 GUI Setup in Windows 10

In the recent release of windows 10 dev build 21364, microsoft announced early dev preview of WSL GUI app support, in this article i will show you how to setup GUI on WSL.

Note that for this setup you should be Windows Insider and Windows 10 Insider Preview build 21362+ is required.

Open Powershell with admin privileges

run the command
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after installation, reboot the system, after reboot installation procedure will continue.

create username and password

Whola the setup is complete, now you can install any ubuntu software using apt package manager or by manually installing .deb file using command “sudo dpkg -i deb-package-name”
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