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Prabhat Verma

Reputation: 43

Error while installing WSL for windows 11

when i run the command on administrator settings on my windows 11

wsl --install

it shows me the following error

a connection with the server could not be established

I searched youtube too for the fixes but none worked

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9652

Answers (2)

hashem yousefi

Reputation: 61

For some countries it's need to use VPN for work with wsl. after vpn installation, connect to vpn and open the powershell as administrator at the end add this command to powershell:

netsh winhttp set proxy proxy_ip:proxy_port

Upvotes: -3

Mohammad Shahwez

Mohammad Shahwez

Reputation: 160

Hi I was having same error. I am Indian using Jio Fiber. I connected to VPN to solve the error. It seems that Jio prevents connection to certain url such as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/WSL/master/distributions/DistributionInfo.json which are needed for wsl linux installation. You can check by trying to open above link in chrome and running network diagnostics. Basically the above url gets called at the end when you do wsl --install.

Upvotes: 10

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