Updating Bash of Ubuntu on Windows 10

[magicstone1412]

here. For some reasons, you wanna update the Bash of Ubuntu on Windows 10 to a desired version of Ubuntu. For instance, I have done an upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04.As you may know, we can run Linux natively on Windows 10. If you don't know how to do it, take a look at a post from @liberosist

Requirements:

• Active Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can refer here.
• Basic knowledge of Linux command line. You can find on internet.

Check Which Version of Ubuntu You Have

1. Run Bash as Administrator right

   

2. Run command lsb_release -a

   

Updating Windows Bash Shell to Ubuntu 16.04

1. Change sources.list to desired Ubuntu version and choose nearest location from you to improve download speed. Run command sudo nano -B /etc/apt/sources.list
   It should look like
   

   

2. https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/, ), choose the parameters as you need as below image. At this step, you can you Ubuntu release.To generate your own sources.list contents, you can stop by [https://repogen.simplylinux.ch](

   
   

3. Copy generated text contents and paste to source.list file above.

4. Save and exit nano.

To avoid the sudo tty issue and others, run these commands just before running upgrade:

sudo -S apt-mark hold sudo
sudo -S apt-mark hold procps
sudo -S apt-mark hold strace

Now let’s update Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -y autoremove

​ And you’re done.

Check again to make sure you update successfully.

lsb_release -a

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