How To Install wsl on Fedora 34

wsl is Wsman Shell Command Line “whistle”

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wsl on Fedora 34.

What is wsl

WSL (aka “whistle”) contains various scripts that serve as a client interface to WSMAN or Web Services for Management protocol base on DMTF standard specification. WSMAN provides standards based messaging for systems management CIM-style objects.

We can use yum or dnf to install wsl on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wsl.

Install wsl on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install wsl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wsl

Install wsl on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install wsl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wsl

How To Uninstall wsl on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the wsl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wsl

wsl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/wsl
/etc/wsl/wsl-functions
/etc/wsl/wsl-ws2textc.xsl
/usr/bin/viwsl
/usr/bin/wsl
/usr/bin/wslcred
/usr/bin/wslecn
/usr/bin/wslenum
/usr/bin/wslget
/usr/bin/wslid
/usr/bin/wslinvoke
/usr/bin/wslput
/usr/bin/wxmlgetvalue
/usr/share/doc/wsl
/usr/share/doc/wsl/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/wsl/README-wsl
/usr/share/doc/wsl/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/wsl/wslrc
/usr/share/man/man1/wsl.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wsl on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.