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Download and install WSL

Download and install WSL - COBOL Tutorial

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Download and install WSL

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- [Instructor] I'm starting the process of setting my environment up with a WSL installation. Let's go ahead and follow along with the instructions on the website. From here, you can see I need to open PowerShell as an administrator and run this command. I can click on copy so I don't have to retype the command. So PowerShell run as administrator. I'm going to make the screen bigger, and then I'm going to use Ctrl+V to paste in that command, and hit enter. The operation completed successfully, that's awesome. Let's go back over to the website, after I'm done with that, I need to choose my installation for the Linux environment. I decided to use Debian. Debian is down here, there's a link to it, but since I already have it open here, in the Microsoft Store, I'm going to go ahead and click on Get. I'm going to click on Install. Now that the installation is complete, I'm going to click on Launch, this will take me…

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