Upgrading your Ubuntu-on-Windows install to the app version
Canonical
on 3 August 2017
Our team and Microsoft recently released Ubuntu as a Windows app store application!
Saving your data
If your “bash on ubuntu on windows” environment has some data you’d like to keep, make sure you back it up now. The uninstall process will nuke everything.
Uninstall the old way
This is relatively simple. Opening a command line (cmd.exe) terminal and typing
lxrun /uninstall
will destroy your previous environment.
Installing the new way
To find the app in the Microsoft store, just type “Ubuntu” in the search bar. Click install. Voilà!
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