Re: Fedora for WSL
by Susi Lehtola
On 5/9/21 1:32 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
> I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for
> Fedora on WSL.
>
> It mostly follows the procedures that had been much talked about in a
> blog post about running Fedora 33 in the WSL2, but it uses the direct
> installer rather than the manual side-loads. It also will install Fedora
> 34. Obviously, it's not released into the Windows Store as that requires
> more than just some technical bit wrangling. But if you're feeling
> adventurous, and you are sometimes relegated to the world of Windows but
> want to bring your Fedora along, you can find it here:
> https://github.com/greg-hellings/FedoraWSL
> <https://github.com/greg-hellings/FedoraWSL>
Thanks for doing this! It's great to have a free WSL installer for Fedora.
Unfortunately, the installer didn't work for me. Even though I installed
the security certificate as a trusted third-party root certificate,
Windows did not let me run the installation.
Has anyone gotten the installer to work? What were the necessary steps?
--
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org
2 years, 11 months
Is there an official Fedora for WSL?
by Code Zombie
Hi
I recently realized that Windows WSL works by actually installing a Linux
distribution. However, I have not used it and don't know much of it.
Is there an official branch of Fedora for WSL or a plan to create one?
I guess it has to be somehow custom Fedora since not all Linux distros
are supported out of the box.
If I happen to use Windows in future for e.g. a project or something, I
would love to have fedora by my side.
-mehdi
3 years, 11 months
Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?
by Tomasz Torcz
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:15:57PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> It's not click and run by any means, but it's feasible.
>
> The bad news, though, is that current versions of rpm (and dnf) won't work
> under WSL if you're on a Windows version older than 2004, so you might be
> stuck with CentOS 7 if you're on an employer-managed laptop that is still
> running an older release of Windows (as I am, during the work day):
> https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3939
This bug manifests with BerkeleyDB. As we just moved off it,
and we are using SQLite for RPM database, current versions of
rpm and dnf should be fine.
--
Tomasz Torcz “God, root, what's the difference?”
tomek(a)pipebreaker.pl “God is more forgiving.”
3 years, 11 months
Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?
by Gordon Messmer
On 6/7/20 12:47 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 07:15:57PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> The bad news, though, is that current versions of rpm (and dnf) won't work
>> under WSL if you're on a Windows version older than 2004, so you might be
>> stuck with CentOS 7 if you're on an employer-managed laptop that is still
>> running an older release of Windows (as I am, during the work day):
>> https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3939
> This bug manifests with BerkeleyDB. As we just moved off it,
> and we are using SQLite for RPM database, current versions of
> rpm and dnf should be fine.
You're right. "Current" was probably the wrong word. RHEL/CentOS 8
don't work, and I don't expect the newest release of Fedora does,
either. Rawhide should, as Iñaki mentioned.
3 years, 11 months
Re: Fedora for WSL
by Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:32:00AM -0500, Greg Hellings wrote:
> I may be hair-brained to do this, but I've put together an installer for
> Fedora on WSL.
Hi Greg! Not hair-brained at all -- this is awesome!
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
3 years
Re: Fedora for WSL
by Greg Hellings
Susi,
I've updated the repository in GitHub to allow issues to be followed.
How did you install the certificate? I had to go through some of the deep Windows internals. Clicking the file and adding it directly wasn't enough, but my machine was also the dev machine so there's lots of things that would be different. If you either reply here or file an issue on the tracker, I can try to replicate what you've done in a clean Windows VM.
--Greg
2 years, 11 months
Re: Let's talk about Fedora in the '20s!
by Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 17:30, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:19:49AM -0600, Martin Jackson wrote:
> > In this vein (as other people have commented on this thread), I
> > think it would be great to give Fedora more visibility. Its absence
> > as a supported image in Azure, for instance, is particularly
> > noticeable, and the whole situation with WSL was regrettable. One
> > of the reasons I've used Ubuntu/Debian in some of those situations
> > is that they're there and relatively easy to consume. I've come to
> > prefer Fedora because it has much better leading-edge stuff, and I
> > think that's a huge benefit to the community that definitely serves
> > a particular segment.
>
> For what it's worth, we do continue to work on these things. It's difficult
> because we really do need to make sure we have solid legal protection.
About the whole issue of bringing Fedora to WSL, I remember that there
were some "non-technical blockers" **two years ago**. So I assumed
that, at this point, this was completely dead. If not, we're already
late, very late.
--
Iñaki Úcar
4 years, 4 months
Re: Is there an official Fedora for WSL?
by Vitaly Zaitsev
On 02.06.2020 13:52, Code Zombie wrote:
> If I happen to use Windows in future for e.g. a project or something, I
> would love to have fedora by my side.
Just install Fedora in dual boot. Don't use proprietary WSL.
--
Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)
3 years, 11 months
