Fedora 38

Intro

Article@Fedora Mag: Fedora Magazine
A collection of utilities for WSL: https://github.com/wslutilities/wslu
Copr: wslutilities/wslu
Brew: Brew

Get Fedora

Fedora 38

Run Fedora

• Extract
• Imports the specified tar file as a new distribution.
• Launch Fedora’s wsl instance as the root user.

cd c:\distros
mkdir fedora38
."C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" e fedora-38-x86_64.tar.xz
wsl --import fedora38 c:\distros\fedora38 .\fedora-38-x86_64.tar
rm .\fedora-38-x86_64.tar*

wsl -d fedora38

Setup Fedora basics

• Update
• Install packages & dependencies
• Add user

dnf update
dnf install wget curl sudo ncurses dnf-plugins-core dnf-utils passwd findutils
useradd -G wheel heebinho
passwd heebinho

Windows Registry & Terminal profile

• Set default uid with ps (id -u)
• Terminal profile

wsl -l -v
Get-ItemProperty Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss\*\ DistributionName | Where-Object -Property DistributionName -eq fedora38  | Set-ItemProperty -Name DefaultUid -Value 1000

Copy ubuntu profile and adjust parameters in windows terminal

Windows Integration

• Add copr Repo (copr -> community projects)

$ sudo dnf copr enable wslutilities/wslu
$ sudo dnf install wslu

Setup Fedora further

$ sudo dnf install git nano vim 
$ sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"  

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

echo '# Set PATH, MANPATH, etc., for Homebrew.' >> /home/heebinho/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /home/heebinho/.bash_profile
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

brew install gcc

brew search node
brew info node@18
brew list
brew uninstall
brew upgrade
brew update

brew install nvm mkdir ~/.nvm

Add the following to /home/heebinho/.bash_profile or your desired shell configuration file:

  export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && \. "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
  [ -s "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm" ] && \. "/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion.d/nvm"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

source .bash_profile
nvm ls-remote
nvm install Gallium
nvm ls

->     v16.19.0
default -> Gallium (-> N/A)
iojs -> N/A (default)
unstable -> N/A (default)
node -> stable (-> v16.19.0) (default)
stable -> 16.19 (-> v16.19.0) (default)
lts/* -> lts/hydrogen (-> N/A)
lts/argon -> v4.9.1 (-> N/A)
lts/boron -> v6.17.1 (-> N/A)
lts/carbon -> v8.17.0 (-> N/A)
lts/dubnium -> v10.24.1 (-> N/A)
lts/erbium -> v12.22.12 (-> N/A)
lts/fermium -> v14.21.2 (-> N/A)
lts/gallium -> v16.19.0
lts/hydrogen -> v18.12.1 (-> N/A)

nvm alias default node ->default -> node (-> v16.19.0)

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C heeb@fedora37

/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew ~/.linuxbrew)