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We have created an installation video which gives an overview of the installation procedure for the Windows Subsystem for Linux using Windows System Requirements Windows You need to have Windows 10 version Build or higher.
If you are using an older version of Windows and cannot upgrade, refer to this page for installation instructions. Paste this command in and press enter. Follow any prompts given. Restart your computer 3. Start the "Ubuntu" app to open an Ubuntu shell. Set up a username and password for Ubuntu only necessary the first time you launch it Now follow these steps to install FSL into your Ubuntu machine: 1. On Windows 10, you need to install a separate application in order to use the FSL user interfaces.
We currently recommend installing VcXsrv - this will install an application called XLaunch. You need to start the XLaunch app in order for graphical applications in Ubuntu to work.
In order for VcXsrv to work, you will need to add these lines to your. Try running glxgears. A window with three spinning gears should open. Use any web browser installed on your Windows 10 computer to get the fslinstaller. Download it to your Downloads folder. When selecting the OS to install on the download page, it is important to choose Ubuntu the Linux version installed by WSL and not Windows, or you will be directed to the VM instead of the installer script.
Run the fslinstaller. The installation can take some time, so please be patient, and do not abort the installation. Close and re-open the Ubuntu shell. Try running the fslmaths , fsl , and fsleyes commands.
If this happens to you, the best option is to update to WSL 2 - open PowerShell as administrator, and run these commands: wsl --set-default-version 2 wsl --set-version Ubuntu You can download Xming from here. You will need to have Xming running in windows, before any linux GUIs will work.
If you decide to use Xming, you will need to run this command to add an extra line to your. This is fairly easy to setup, and we provide basic installation instructions below, but please note that we cannot in general offer further help for the setup and maintenance of the virtual machine itself - we just offer support on the running of FSL within it.
Download the software from VMware's site and install this package by following VMware's instructions or you can look at videos on youtube if you get stuck. Once it is installed and your computer has been restarted, launch VMware Workstation Player to complete initial setup.
Academic users' institution must be a member of the VMWare Academic program to use this software for free. To install, decompress the downloaded FSLvm by double clicking on the zip file and clicking on Extract button in the Windows Explorer toolbar. Choose to extract all files, then choose a location to extract to. Initial setup The installation of the FSL package requires an internet connection. Please ensure your computer has a working connection before continuing with the setup procedure.
Subsequent to the initial launch, the FSLvm will appear in the list of Recent Virtual Machines allowing quick launching. During the launch of a VM you may be prompted to download and upgrade the VMware Tools updates for these appear periodically. You should agree to this. Depending on your Windows computer's hardware, you may also receive additional messages about missing hardware. These can be dismissed. The FSLvm will now boot, a process that may take several minutes. Once the boot process has completed, you will be automatically logged into the account fsluser and the installation of FSL will begin.
You will be prompted to choose a password for this account, make a note of this password as you will need it to use the 'sudo' command when you install FSL updates.
Next FSL will be downloaded, installed and configured. Finally, the virtual machine will check for pending software updates, install them and reboot, please be patient this final step may take a while. Recovering from a failed install If your computer loses it's network connection during the download phase the installer will quit. At this point the installation is complete. Read on if you want to find out how to modify the VM's settings to suit your keyboard layout, to enable file sharing and to increase the memory available to the VM.
Further steps The FSLvm is configured with a British keyboard; users with a different keyboard layout can change by clicking on the power symbol in the top right of the screen and clicking on the tools icon in the bottom left of the resulting window.
The Input Sources at the bottom of the window allow the addition of different keyboard layouts. To transfer files select them in the Windows Explorer and then drag them into your FSLvm window and drop in the folder you would like it to reside in or onto the Desktop.
You may find that the first attempt to copy a file results in an error, click Retry which should complete. VMware Workstation Player file sharing Before changing the sharing settings first create a folder to share.
Put this folder somewhere appropriate in your home folder. To enable sharing permanently select the Always Enabled radio button. Now select the pre-configured share and click on the Properties button. This will open another dialogue box allowing you to change the name the share will appear as in Linux and to change the Windows file path for the shared folder. Click on the Browse button and locate the folder you created earlier.
Click on the OK buttons to dismiss the dialogues. To navigate there through the graphical file browser, double click on Home on the desktop and then, in the resulting window, click on Computer.
Within here will be the shared folder, named as specified in the Shared Folders dialogue. See below for help if the shared folders function stops working.
Warning Do not attempt to modify the same files in this shared folder in both operating systems at once - bad things will happen! Using external media: If you connect a USB storage device whilst VMware Workstation Player is running and has the input focus it will allow Linux to see the storage device.
In most cases it will automatically mount and an icon will appear on the Linux desktop. Connection to the host is now possible using this address as the hostname to connect to within puTTY. Shutting down Under normal circumstances you should just close the FSLvm window, this will suspend the FSLvm to disk allowing quick restoration of your session at a later date.
However, sometimes it may be necessary to shutdown the FSLvm entirely say if you are moving it to a new computer. To do this, click on the power icon in the top right of the desktop menu bar, click on the power icon bottom left and choose Shutdown. When updates are available a message window will appear in the top right of the Linux desktop advising you of what updated packages are available. Clicking on the icon associated with this message will open the package update utility which can be used to update the system.
You will be asked for the root password that you set when installing the FSLvm before being allowed to install these updates.
Updating VMware Tools If you find that the shared folder functionality stops working then you will need to update the VMware tools, to do this follow these instructions.
You will now be asked a series of questions. Hit return to accept the default to all of the questions. Once the installation is complete you should reboot the FSLvm to allow the changes to take effect. For more demanding analyses you will need to increase the amount of available memory allocated to the virtual machine. Before you change this setting you should find out how much memory your computer has.
With this in mind, you can calculate the amount of memory you can safely allocate to the FSLvm by following the advice below. In the dialogue that opens type the value you have calculated as being optimal into the memory total box - the memory section will suggest some values for you. As indicated in this window once you have clicked OK you will need to restart the VM. Increasing the size of the virtual disk is also possible, but not straightforward, so if you require additional disk space we would recommend adding an additional USB hard drive to your system and dedicating it's use to Linux.
For correct FSL operation, the drive should be formatted with the Linux ext3 filesystem. Follow these steps to carry out this formatting process. Start with the drive disconnected Click inside the running VM window so that you are controlling Linux Connect the USB drive If the drive mounts and appears on your Linux desktop, right click and choose to un-mount it.
Unfortunately, Centos won't let you format the device at this point, so you need to format via the command line. Open a terminal and become the root user: su - enter the root password when prompted Potential for data loss The next step will destroy everything on the drive you specify, so make sure you are certain that this is the correct disk.
Run the partitioning tool: parted You are now in an interactive partition editor. FslInstallation Windows. The installation of the FSL package requires an internet connection. Potential for data loss The next step will destroy everything on the drive you specify, so make sure you are certain that this is the correct disk.