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<p>You’ll probably need to reboot.</p>

<p>After reboot, install an Ubuntu distro:
<p>After reboot, update your WSL:</p>
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I'm conflicted on this, because of course if you just installed and rebooted, you don't need to update. OTOH we're trying to keep this as simple and straightforward as possible.

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Then I think we don't need to add this, assuming that the info on this page is for folks who are completely new to WSL. 🙂

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Well, you needed it, and there will be others like you who didn't do the WSL install right at the time :)

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Maybe just make it like a note? If you can't install DDEV, try to update your WSL... something like that.


<Terminal type="powershell" code={`> wsl --update`} />

<p>Keeping WSL updated helps to ensure that DDEV installs successfully.</p>

<p>Then, install an Ubuntu distro:</p>

<Terminal type="powershell" code={`> wsl --install Ubuntu --name DDEV`} />

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