Note: I do not maintain this gist anymore, but people report that it still works. Please check the comments for any revisions or extra things you should take into consideration.
As of writing, the Debian distro for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is quite old.
You can get more up-to-date package managers, text-editors and compilers by upgrading WSL to Debian 12 (current testing).
- Root required
- Use at your own risk, preferably on a fresh installation.
- Choose 'yes' when Debian requests to restart services.
- Install and open Debian on WSL (if not already)
wsl --install -d debian
wsl -d debian- Go into root
sudo -s- Upgrade Debian 9 to 10
apt update -y && \
apt upgrade -y && \
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main" > /etc/apt/sources.list && \
apt update -y && \
apt upgrade -y && \
apt dist-upgrade -y- Upgrade Debian 10 to 11
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main" > /etc/apt/sources.list && \
apt update -y && \
apt upgrade -y && \
apt dist-upgrade -y- Debian 11 to 12
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main" > /etc/apt/sources.list && \
apt update -y && \
apt upgrade -y && \
apt dist-upgrade -y && \
apt autoremove -y && \
exit