Installation of Software on Windows WSL

More details on setting up WSL on a Windows PC. Code can be copied and pasted, but be sure to check if there are updated URLs to package releases.

1 WSL

Open a powershell terminal in Windows and then enter the following commands:

wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04 

wsl hostname -I 

Info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/basic-commands

2 VS Code

No need to install VS Code in the WSL terminal. You can install it for Windows and select the WSL terminal from the drop-down menu.

3 R

Open a WSL terminal now that it’s been installed

sudo apt update 

sudo apt install r-base r-base-dev 

sudo Rscript -e "install.packages(c('knitr','rmarkdown'))" 

which R 

4 Rstudio server

mkdir -p $HOME/opt/bin 

cd $HOME/opt 

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core 

wget https://download2.rstudio.org/server/jammy/amd64/rstudio-server-2025.05.1-513-amd64.deb 

sudo gdebi rstudio-server-2025.05.1-513-amd64.deb 

open URL in web browser: http://localhost:8787

Username: same username as WSL shell

Password: same password as WSL shell

Info: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-server/

4.1 Python

This may not be necessary since RStudio server should install python3 as a dependency.

If python3 is not installed, which python3 command will not print anything to the terminal. In that case, use apt-get to install python3.

which python3  

sudo apt-get install python3 

which python3 

Info: https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-and-switch-python-versions-on-ubuntu-20-04/

4.2 Github CLI

sudo apt update 

sudo apt install gh 

which gh  

4.3 Quarto

mkdir -p $HOME/opt/bin 

cd $HOME/opt 

wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v1.7.32/quarto-1.7.32-linux-amd64.deb 

sudo dpkg -i quarto-1.7.32-linux-amd64.deb 

which quarto  

4.4 Summary

Once the IDEs (Rstudio and VSCode) are installed, as well as the git

and gh CLI utilities, you are ready to start configuring your git installation by following these steps.