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Improve WSL permissions issue in "install from source" documentation #35840

@Daniel-Khodabakhsh

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@Daniel-Khodabakhsh

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • I have searched the existing issues for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.

Problem Description

Currently, the WSL permissions which is encountered when building Sage from source is under the Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) prerequisite installation section of the documentation.

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However WSL is not Ubuntu on WSL. WSL supports multiple versions of Linux and Ubuntu is but one of them.

As someone who uses WSL and not Ubuntu, I skipped this section and spent and an hour tracking down the permissions error.

Proposed Solution

Create a new WSL-specific section for this error and how to handle it.

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