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Is it possible to intall libXft.so.2 on WSL?

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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2 

Can someone help me out, please?

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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2 

Can someone help me out, please?

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I wish to run a scientific GUI on WSL, which requires libXft.so.2 package. Used sudo apt-get command, bash returned.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2 

Can someone help me out, please?

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXft.so.2 

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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.

Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.

sudo apt-get install libxft2

You can then check the file availability through locate.

:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2

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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.

Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.

sudo apt-get install libxft2

You can then check the file availability through locate.

:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2

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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.

Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.

sudo apt-get install libxft2

You can then check the file availability through locate.

:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2

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I suspect it is not a package, rather it's a file—precisely file provided by some package.

Looking up libxFt.so.2 in packages.ubuntu.com yield libxft2 package, so install it as follow.

sudo apt-get install libxft2

You can then check the file availability through locate.

:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2

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sudo apt-get install libxft2

:~$ locate libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXft.so.2.3.2

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