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It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements from 2.9.3 on up become available for most WSL

It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements from 2.9.3 on up become available for most WSL users. :(

AlexeyBrin 8y ago
No need to wait until 2020. From the GNU nano README: ------------------------------- How to compile and install nano: Download the nano source code, then: tar xvzf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz cd nano-x.y.z ./configure make make install It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the default installation directory of /usr/local. If you haven't configured with the --disable-nanorc option, after installation you may want to copy the doc/sample.nanorc file to your home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to your taste.
- Moto7451 8y ago
  This indeed. This is one of my first steps on any new computer/OS install. I’m a daily Nano user and in my experience the only real headache you can run into is missing the right version or configure not finding where readline and nucrses/ncursesw are. Those are really easy to install on any platform (even from source).
marvy 8y ago
Just download an LTS and then run do-release-upgrade. (May have to tweak /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades)
- tyingq 8y ago
  You can also convert an existing distro so it side loads into WSL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-distro https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-di...
giancarlostoro 8y ago
> It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements from 2.9.3 on up become available for most WSL users. :( There are other Linux distros too. I had openSUSE installed off there not too long back. Theres even Github projects that let you install any ISO onto WSL and wherever on your hard drive you want to install them to.
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chronogram 8y ago
I installed Debian from the store, and set it as default with the ‘wslconfig’ command. I changed Debian to unstable for 99% of things, and use the Ubuntu profile for 1% of things. New packages!
Daegalus 8y ago
That's super easy to get around. Install the LTS, change the release-upgrade setting from LTS to the non-lts setting (quick google will give the actual value). and run do-release-upgrade. I've been running non-LTS Ubuntu for a while on WSL.
greggyb 8y ago
I've run Debian testing and unstable on WSL lately and it's a fine experience. I don't know about Ubuntu, but for Debian, it's a matter of changing your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to your desired version and then: $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Personally, I've ended up back on Debian stable for WSL, because I have reasons to use a VM rather than WSL. So WSL is now just a dumb ssh terminal into a local VM. If you're curious, the reasons are primarily to do with speed of disk access operations. I also run into some issues with several emacs add-ins that I can work around but don't care to.* I also run vcxsrv on Windows, and ssh X forwarding didn't work immediately, but a low-priority to-do is to use this to run local-VM X clients connecting to the Windows X server. * I sometimes stop to ponder the things that I find acceptable to troubleshoot and the things I don't want to put the effort into. For reference, see above about local VM and X Forwarding....
josteink 8y ago
> It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements It’s really as trivial to dist-upgrade Ubuntu on WSL as real Ubuntu. Heck, I bet 19.04 works fine already if you dare run a beta.

It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements from 2.9.3 on up become available for most WSL users. :(

AlexeyBrin 8y ago

No need to wait until 2020. From the GNU nano README: ------------------------------- How to compile and install nano: Download the nano source code, then: tar xvzf nano-x.y.z.tar.gz cd nano-x.y.z ./configure make make install It's that simple. Use --prefix with configure to override the default installation directory of /usr/local. If you haven't configured with the --disable-nanorc option, after installation you may want to copy the doc/sample.nanorc file to your home directory, rename it to ".nanorc", and then edit it according to your taste.

Moto7451 8y ago
This indeed. This is one of my first steps on any new computer/OS install. I’m a daily Nano user and in my experience the only real headache you can run into is missing the right version or configure not finding where readline and nucrses/ncursesw are. Those are really easy to install on any platform (even from source).

marvy 8y ago

Just download an LTS and then run do-release-upgrade. (May have to tweak /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades)

tyingq 8y ago
You can also convert an existing distro so it side loads into WSL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-distro https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-di...

giancarlostoro 8y ago

> It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements from 2.9.3 on up become available for most WSL users. :( There are other Linux distros too. I had openSUSE installed off there not too long back. Theres even Github projects that let you install any ISO onto WSL and wherever on your hard drive you want to install them to.

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chronogram 8y ago

I installed Debian from the store, and set it as default with the ‘wslconfig’ command. I changed Debian to unstable for 99% of things, and use the Ubuntu profile for 1% of things. New packages!

Daegalus 8y ago

That's super easy to get around. Install the LTS, change the release-upgrade setting from LTS to the non-lts setting (quick google will give the actual value). and run do-release-upgrade. I've been running non-LTS Ubuntu for a while on WSL.

greggyb 8y ago

I've run Debian testing and unstable on WSL lately and it's a fine experience. I don't know about Ubuntu, but for Debian, it's a matter of changing your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to your desired version and then: $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Personally, I've ended up back on Debian stable for WSL, because I have reasons to use a VM rather than WSL. So WSL is now just a dumb ssh terminal into a local VM. If you're curious, the reasons are primarily to do with speed of disk access operations. I also run into some issues with several emacs add-ins that I can work around but don't care to.* I also run vcxsrv on Windows, and ssh X forwarding didn't work immediately, but a low-priority to-do is to use this to run local-VM X clients connecting to the Windows X server. * I sometimes stop to ponder the things that I find acceptable to troubleshoot and the things I don't want to put the effort into. For reference, see above about local VM and X Forwarding....

josteink 8y ago

> It's too bad the Windows Store only contains Ubuntu LTS editions. It'll be July 2020 before all the improvements It’s really as trivial to dist-upgrade Ubuntu on WSL as real Ubuntu. Heck, I bet 19.04 works fine already if you dare run a beta.