Stolen from here https://www.codingwithcalvin.net/installing-docker-and-docker-compose-in-wsl2ubuntu-on-windows/

To get started, I’m running Windows 10 and have WSL2 installed running Ubuntu. Even more specifically:

This likely works across multiple versions of each of these items, but just want you to know up front :).

Okay, so how do we get this working? Here we go.

First, open an instance of WSL2, because we need to type a number of commands.

If you’ve ever had Docker installed inside of WSL2 before, and is now potentially an “old” version – remove it:

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sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc

Now, let’s update apt so we can get the current goodies:

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release

Once that’s finished, let’s add the official GPG key for Docker:

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curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

Now, let’s add the stable repository to apt:

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echo \

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     "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \

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     $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Now we can actually install Docker! Run the following commands:

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Docker is now installed! Yay! And I’m dumb, so I thought that was all, so I navigated to my source code directory and ran –

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docker-compose up

The error messages following that made me realize that I still need to install docker-compose, so here we go!

Since we’ve got everything updated and looking good, this part is just a single command –

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sudo apt-get install docker-compose