WSL2

Easy WSL Windows path switching alias

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I have been primarily developing on WSL for some years now, and still love the combination in terms of all around flexibility. When primarily working on Linux based or focused applications, everything is lovely! However, I’m spending more time straying into the land of hardware, USB devices, and custom IDEs and debug interfaces that are … Read more

READ FIRST: Installing kubuntu-desktop on WSL2

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This post is meant as a warning, DONT DO IT, without some research first.

But if you end up here, you have likely already made the mistake ;)

It in this case is, “this” is…

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

Before you attempt this, do some reasearch, head the warning, and be casefull (maybe even backup your disk so you can undo the mess if you make it ;).

If you have already done this and partially bricked your Ubuntu installation, don’t worry, you can fix it!

Symptoms

  • apt, dpkg, service commands and more basically unresponsive and hanging
  • Extremely slow boot times
  • System never seems to entirely boot correctly
  • sudo su etc might also not work

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WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)

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I’ll start by saying that ultimately you want to read and follow the Connecting USB devices documentation for WSL.

However, a few things cropped up along the way that I think might be worth writing down for future me, and others.

Requirements

Firstly, you need to be on WSL2.

Next, install the USBIPD-WIN program.

winget install --interactive --exact dorssel.usbipd-winCode language: CSS (css)

Listing devices

In windows cmd or powershell, you can use usbipd list to list all devices. This should line up with what you see in Windows device manager if you open it.

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Windows 11 OpenSSH agent to WSL2

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I briefly touched on my OpenSSH agent to WSL2 solution back in 2021. Today find myself setting up a new Windows 11 laptop and running into a couple of different issues, and ultimately using a slightly different solution than before, so here is the short writeup glossing over the areas that lead me to get a little stuck, and hopefully outlining a good set of commands.

In my old .bashrc file, I found a comment linking me to the rupor-github/wsl-ssh-agent GitHub repository which was my first set of reading, specifically the WSL2 compatibility section. The main sticking issue for me out of the box was a miss match in the OpenSSH version between Windows and WSL2, with Windows starting on 8.6 but WSL2 with Ubuntu starting on 8.9. This lead to errors such as:

  • Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory
  • error fetching identities: invalid format
  • Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

And more…

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Installing Android Studio on WSL2 for Flutter

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I’m trying to do some “modern” Android development and want to experiment with Flutter while running Windows, and WSL2 with Ubuntu.

Flutter isn’t as easy to install as some programs, no simple apt-get etc, but instead a collection of binaries distributed by different organizations that all need to be tied together.

To start with, you’ll want to read Installing Flutter 2.0 on WSL2 by Josh Kautz. This can guide you through getting Flutter and also the Android SDK with some copy & paste commands.

This post is inspired by these simple steps there to make this easy for folks to copy for Android Studio.

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VSCode & PHP XDebug from Localhost, WSL2 and Docker containers

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VSCode seems to be one of the up and coming IDEs over the last year. I personally switched from Jetbrains IDEs to VSCode fo most of my development work at some point in 2020.

Apparently up until now I have avoided running the PHP debugger Xdebug. I had to do a little search around to figure out the correct settings for my setup decided to write them down in this handy blog post.

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