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It's not on Ubuntu on Windows, right? It is Ubuntu bash on Windows via a compatibility layer.
by ruffrey 11y ago
It's not on Ubuntu on Windows, right? It is Ubuntu bash on Windows via a compatibility layer.
- grimgrin 11y agoA graphical layer isn't present, but you can apt-get install anything that runs in the background/command line. vim, emacs, etc. At least as far as I know. A commenter here mentioned having difficulties installing java, however: > if you go the apt-get route you get a sha256sum mismatch on both java7 & java8. If you try to be clever and manually download it and throw it in the cache, same story. If you try to be really really clever and manually download it and try to manually extract the tar it throws a bunch of cannot create symlink: invalid argument errors. I spent a good 2+ hours trying to force it to install in various ways. For now at least it seems java is not meant to be on Windows Bash. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446913