WSL2 Ubuntu GUI

in this video I'm going to show you a number of things I'm going to show you how to get WSL version 2 up and running on a Windows 10 computer in a previous video which I've linked here and below I showed you how to do that but I showed you how to do that using the graphical user interface so in this video I'm going to show you how to do that using PowerShell just allows us to do things very very quickly but I'm also going to show you how to get and a bunch of e em up and running on wsl in this case a bun to 2004 and I'm gonna show you how to get a graphical user interface up and running on ubuntu I'm going to show you how you can remote to desktop to the bull to VM running within WSL version 2 okay let's get started as mentioned I'm going to show you multiple things in this video first thing is installation of WSL version 2 then I'm going to show you how to get in a bun to virtual machine up and running within wsl version 2 then I'm going to show you how to set up at the graphical user interface use this menu and the menu below to jump to a specific topic so if you're not interested in for instance getting wsl version 2 up and running because you've already got it working then jump to the relevant topic in this video now in this example I'm doing everything on this Windows 10 a laptop I'm controlling the laptop using VNC from my Mac but I'm doing everything on this Windows 10 laptop ok first thing make sure that you've got the right of version of Windows 10 you need at least version 2004 if you haven't got that version go to Windows Update and make sure that you update your windows computer to that release now some people have had issues getting this release of windows up and running on their computer you may have to use a manual installation process to do that okay so once you've got your computer updated run PowerShell as an administrator so I'm gonna click yes to run this as administrator here's PowerShell first thing you need to once you open PowerShell as administrator is to enable the windows subsystem for Linux I'm going to simply copy this command from the Microsoft and documentation but I've put all the commands below this video which will hopefully help you get the set up very quickly I've added commands to setup w SL version two but I've also added of the commands to get the graphical user interface up and running on a bullet II so I'm going to simply paste that into PowerShell you can see that to the feature has been enabled next step and as you can see here they mention that you need a version 2004 is to enable the virtual machine platform so I'm going to copy that command from Microsoft and paste it in operation has completed successfully we told that we need to restart the machine so restart your computer as you can see Windows updates are being applied and the computers been rebooted ok once it reboots log back in you can check whether your features are enabled by going to turn Windows Features on or off scrolling down here I can see that the virtual machine platform is enabled as well as the windows subsystem for Linux that's how you enable it through the GUI if you prefer using the GUI ok next step is to set the version to w SL version T so PowerShell copy this command to set the version to version 2 now notice WSL requires an update to its kernel component you can use this URL to find out the details so copying that your role we need to download to the latest WS l to Linux kernel so I'm gonna click on that link to download the software this is only a small application 13 Meghan size so I'll show that in folder double-click on the MSI click a run and I'm told to that this will update the windows subsystem for Linux click Next click yes to allow it to to make changes that's now completed now that that's been done I'll copy the command once again to set the version to version 2 so that's been done now far top WS L - L - V you can see that no Linux distributions have been installed so I can install them from the Microsoft Store so back in the documentation they basically tell us to do that we can go to the Microsoft Store so I'll do that go to the Microsoft Store and search for a booty now there various releases of a bun - I could run 18:04 LTS I could run 2004 I'm simply going to take this version which is actually gonna give me the latest release of Ubuntu at the time of this recording it's 2004 now I've previously installed us so I've got the install option if you don't have that click get and then click install so I'm going to click install software is downloaded it's about four 30 Meg so that's now completed and what I can do now is launch the virtual machine I'm told that it's installing and may take a few minutes I'm asked to create a default UNIX account this does not need to match my Windows user name I'm simply going to use David specify my password retype my password and as you can see I've now got a boon to up and running on my Windows 10 computer back in PowerShell using the command WL - L - V shows me that I've got a boon to running the WS l version is version 2 so that's how you get and a boon to virtual machine this is a lightweight a virtual machine running within WS l version 2 on the Windows 10 computer in my example here I'm using Windows home I'm not using a professional version of Windows this is Windows home running on a laptop with an i7 processor 8 gig of ram but i've essentially got a bun tube up and running on this computer LSB under school released - a shows me my version of ubuntu now in other videos which i've linked here and below i show you how to use windows terminal when this terminal makes us very easy so as an example I can select Ubuntu here PWD shows me my home directory LSB underscore release once again shows me my release of Ubuntu 2004 you don't have to use the Windows terminal if you don't want to you can just use the bolt in terminal that you get with Windows but in my example I'm gonna use the Windows terminal just because it's very nice it has tabs very nice interface okay so now that we've got a boot up and running let's get a graphical user interface up and running on this a boon to virtual machine now in May 2020 Microsoft announced that they will bring graphical user interfaces to wsl version 2 at the time of this recording that's still not available it's probably scheduled for the later part of 2020 so in this example I'm going to show you how to get a graphical user interface up and running on a boon to so that you can IDP directly to your boon to virtual machine running within WSL version 2 this is a workaround at the moment while we wait for Microsoft to release they bolt in a DP or remote desktop solution in WS l version to you the first thing to do is to do a sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade I'll put in my password references updated and the software is updated now you don't necessarily have to upgrade your virtual machine it's just good practice so that's what I'm doing here okay that's done I'll clear the screen I'll now use sudo apt install xrdp to install RDP I've once again listed all the commands below this video if you just want to copy those rather than try and get them from the video EP is installed I'll clear the screen let's install a lightweight graphical user interface so X face.4 now you have a choice I'm going to use G DM 3 as my graphical user interface ok that's completed I'll clear the screen again I'm going to install additional software so xfce 4 goodies I'll clear the screen again now we're going to do some configuration of ex IDP so I'm going to back up at the xrdp configuration file so that I have a backup of it you don't have to do this but it's a good idea to backup stuff like this so if you make a mistake you can just restore your backup what I'm going to do is change the default port of 3 3 8 9 2 3 3 9 0 you don't have to do that once again but I'm doing that so that I can use a different port number to the default make sure that there no conflicts I'm going to increase the resolution by increasing the bits per pixel so those two commands just allow the quality of the IDP session to be better I'm basically already paying to myself here locally so make sense to have good quality I'm going to save that to X session and what I'm going to do is use nano simple text editor to edit this xrdp startup script go right to the end so just go right to the end and comment out these last two lines so I'm going to simply comment out those two lines and then I'm going to add an additional two lines so we're going to start xfce control X save the file and there you go I've saved that file and now that I've saved the file I'm going to start up X IDP so the RDP server has now started so now that that's been done I can test my connection and I can use localhost port 3 3 9 0 because that's the port we changed the RDP server to use and if I click connect I'm told that the identity of the server can't be verified do I want to connect yes I do I've got an IDP session to my bunty server I'll log in with my username and password if you get an error here it's probably because you've used the wrong username and password so I'm going to click OK to log into my server and there you go of I peed or opened a remote desktop to my bunted computer so just to prove the point here is my boon to server so this is the CLI LSB underscore release gives us that IP address gives us that this is the IP address of the server in my IDP session I'll click on applications terminal editor I'll zoom in here so just make this a bit bigger LSB underscore release - a shows me my release IP address shows me that this is the same server I'm working on the same server now the interface is different I'm using a lightweight GUI interface here rather than the default notice what happens though when I try and open up a web browser I get an error so what I'm going to do is type sudo apt install Firefox so that I have Firefox as my default browser so I'm now installing firefox on the Ubuntu virtual machine running within WSL version 2 running within my Windows 10 computer ok so that's done I'll click on this icon again and notice I have Firefox running on my boon to VM running within WSL version 2 I'll type date today notice there's the date so there you go I'm able to connect to the internet using a web browser installed within a bun to within WSL version 2 on my Windows 10 computer now I'll close this because I'm sure people are going to ask me this question you don't have to use localhost you could go to 24-105 187 like this this is using a nat @ address so I'm able to connect to the virtual machine by IP address now that's how you get a graphical user interface up and running on a bun to have a look at the links below this video I found a really good article and I've linked to that below this video that really helped me set this up now if you enjoy this video please consider subscribing to my youtube channel please like this video and please click on the bell to get notifications I'm David bumble I want to wish you all the very best [Music]