Ubuntu 24.04 LTS missing from list of manual download locations

[ralphhendriks]

Type of issue

Missing information

Feedback

• The list of URLs for manual download of distros in the Downloading distrubitions section of the page is missing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS as an option, although this is now available from the Store-based installation.
• Also, the top entry in the list, Ubuntu, redirects to 22.04 LTS. I believe this should now point to 24.04 LTS instead as it is the current LTS version.
• Furthermore, the article describes that these links will download a file names <distro>.appx, whereas in my case a file called Ubuntu2204-221101.AppxBundle got downloaded. The file extension is not matching.
• Lastly, it is not clear to me in this section of the page whether the Add-AppxPackage must be run before double-clicking the file, or that these two actions have the same result. The 'Once the Appx package has finished downloading' sentence is causing me confusion.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual#step-5---set-wsl-2-as-your-default-version

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/main/WSL/install-manual.md

Author

@craigloewen-msft

Document Id

3fd655c2-9bb3-67d7-c369-545f38f805d8

[ralphhendriks]

Partly duplicate of #1952. Other points still might need taking a look 😉