Strangely, downloading Ubuntu from my Microsoft Store doesn’t work on my Windows 10 workstation (maybe due to corporate AD policy restrictions). Here is the workaround that I found out which can get the Ubuntu 20.04 installed on my WSL subsystem.
Step 1: run powershll as “administrator”
Step 2: run below command to see if you can have Ubuntu installed
winget install Ubuntu
Expect below error message:
“Multiple packages found matching input criteria. Please refine the input.”
Step 3: copy away the ID under the winget source column (in my case it is “Canonical.Ubuntu”)
Step 4: use the above specific ID in your next winget command to get Ubuntu installed:
winget install -e --id Canonical.Ubuntu
And now the installation should start successfully even if you are behind the GFW in China.
1 screenshot is worth 1000 words:
Reference to this article for inspirations
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