For Windows users, in the setup guide on page 1, it is telling the reader to go to the Windows Store and "Get" the windows terminal and "Ubuntu" app.
During the class, i was doing the "installfest" with the students on a brand new machine and both myself, and all of the students on windows (about 4), were unable to push the "Get" button on the windows store....nothing happened. So we had to find an alternative route. Here is what we learned:
Windows Terminal
go to the "releases" within GH: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases
Find the "latest release". this was 1.8.1092.0 at the time of this issue
At the bottom of the "latest release" section, you will see "assets", and under assets is a downloadable file that ends in .msixbundle
Download this file, and run it. That does the same thing the "Get" on the windows store does for Windows Terminal.
Ubuntu App:
go here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual
Select the proper version: "Ubuntu 20.04", a download of a .appx file will occur
run this file, and it will do the same thing as the "Get" from the windows store
These instructions should be noted in the setup guide as an alternative option. I'm sure there will be times in the future where the "Get" doesn't work from the store.
RogerHuba
commented
2 years ago
Moving issue from Code-102
For Windows users, in the setup guide on page 1, it is telling the reader to go to the Windows Store and "Get" the windows terminal and "Ubuntu" app.
During the class, i was doing the "installfest" with the students on a brand new machine and both myself, and all of the students on windows (about 4), were unable to push the "Get" button on the windows store....nothing happened. So we had to find an alternative route. Here is what we learned:
Windows Terminal
go to the "releases" within GH: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases Find the "latest release". this was 1.8.1092.0 at the time of this issue At the bottom of the "latest release" section, you will see "assets", and under assets is a downloadable file that ends in .msixbundle Download this file, and run it. That does the same thing the "Get" on the windows store does for Windows Terminal. Ubuntu App:
go here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual Select the proper version: "Ubuntu 20.04", a download of a .appx file will occur run this file, and it will do the same thing as the "Get" from the windows store These instructions should be noted in the setup guide as an alternative option. I'm sure there will be times in the future where the "Get" doesn't work from the store.