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I was settling up WSL2 the other day and needed Chrome so I could run it headless for some E2E tests I had going. It took a lot of messing about to get a copy o
by ljm 6y ago
I was settling up WSL2 the other day and needed Chrome so I could run it headless for some E2E tests I had going. It took a lot of messing about to get a copy of it that didn't use Snap. Partly because apt has always worked great for me and I didn't want to switch with something else, but also because it required systemd to run it as a daemon?
That they clobbered the apt install just to push Snap forward left a bad taste in my mouth.
- ripdog 6y agoIt's worth noting that you can use Arch and various other distros on wsl[2], not just Ubuntu.
- sergeykish 6y agoIt is not official, like with AUR check sources http://archlinux.2023198.n4.nabble.com/Windows-Subsystem-Linux-Arch-Linux-as-official-container-td4718272.html http://archlinux.2023198.n4.nabble.com/Windows-Subsystem-Lin...
- voxic11 6y agoYou can officially use any official image on WSL2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-distro https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/build-custom-di...
- philliphaydon 6y agoI don’t understand why it’s so hard. It’s literally visit chrome website and download the deb file and install...