charlyRoot's avatar

WSL2 laravel new blog success

My goto install stopped working due to laravel installer requiring 7.3. This fixed it. This assumes a sparkly fresh WSL2 install. I used on 20.04

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

sudo apt install composer -y

sudo apt install software-properties-common && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php && sudo apt update

sudo apt install php7.4 -y

sudo apt install php7.4-zip php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xml -y

composer global require laravel/installer

cd .config/composer/vendor/bin

pwd

copy that path

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

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rognales's avatar

But this does not persist the PATH, only valid for current session

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