wsl2withhomebrew.md

Update packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Update to latest Ubuntu version

sudo nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Change lts to normal. Reboot WSL with wsl --shutdown in powershell/cmd.

sudo do-release-upgrade

Answer yes to each question, Ubuntu will restart by itself. You can now check your version with lsb_release -a.

Optional

Remove Windows path and disable swap

https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows/wsl/wsl-config

sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

[interop] 
enabled=false # enable launch of Windows binaries; default is true 
appendWindowsPath=false # append Windows path to $PATH variable; default is true

[wsl2]
swap=0

In Powershell: wsl --shutdown.

Install ZSH & oh-my-zsh

sudo apt install zsh -y && chsh -s $(which zsh)
zsh
sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Install homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
test -d ~/.linuxbrew && eval "$(~/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
test -r ~/.zshrc && echo "eval \$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)" >>~/.zshrc

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
brew install gcc

Homebrew packages

Put you Brewfile in home or specific folder and run brew bundle.

After you can rm Brewfile.lock.json.