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Setup environment of Creation Lab

Prepare the WSL runtime environment in Window.​

Step 1: Open feature by Powershell or Control panel and virtualization in BIOS​

  • In BIOS: open virtualization feature.
  • In Powersell - Administator: need to active Windows-Subsystem-Linux and VirtualMachinePlatform
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
  • Or you can active in Control panel (Contact Phu-san)

controlpanel feature

Then, restart your PC

Step 2: WSL2 (windows 11 or windows 10)​

For x64 systems: Version 1903 or later, with Build 18362 or later (ONLY WINDOWS 10).

For ARM64 systems: Version 2004 or later, with Build 19041 or later (ONLY WINDOWS 10).

wsl --install

Update wsl (Contact Phu-san) :

https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi

or use this command

wsl --update

Set WSL version default to 2

wsl --set-default-version 2

Step 3: Install Ubuntu using WSL.​

Run this command (in PowerShell or CMD) to install Ubuntu:

wsl --install Ubuntu

Check your default WSL distribution:

wsl -l -v

check default WSL distribution

If your default WSL distribution is not Ubuntu, use this command:

wsl --set-default Ubuntu

Step 4: Limited RAM and CPU usage of WSL​

Create filename .wslconfig inside current User's directory: c://Users/{your-user} and paste lines below inside it.

[wsl2]
memory=3GB
processors=2

Preparing the environment on Ubuntu​

Step 1: Running Ubuntu​

caution

All commands run in WSL2 - UBUNTU must be in normal user , not in ROOT user

In PowerShell: to access to Ubuntu, type:

wsl

In the first time open: need to create your User and Password.

After that, run:

cd

Then:

sudo apt update

Step 2: Contact Phu-san to change group Symantec​

php

sudo apt install php8.1
sudo apt install -y php8.1-{cli,gd,curl,mysql,ldap,zip,fileinfo,fpm,xml,mbstring,exif,pspell,imagick,bcmath}

composer
https://getcomposer.org/download/
After accessing the link above, please find this section and run the provided commands in ubuntu:

get composer

nvm

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.3/install.sh | bash

or

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.3/install.sh | bash

nodejs

nvm install 16.15.0

pnpm

npm i -g pnpm

python-pip3

sudo apt install python3-pip

**Setup new github SSH key in WSL2 - Ubuntu environment : **
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

Pre-setup for Docker​

Run this command for both environment, windows and WSL2 - Ubuntu:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Recommend some useful extension for vscode​

In VScode, install these extensions:

  • Remote Development (Microsoft)
  • Remote Explorer (Microsoft)

Reference​

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config