Posting a status of what I tried: I followed https://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex-unx to install MiKTeX for Ubuntu (under WSL).
I managed to get MiKTeX installed in WSL (with the "shared" option, and using the common-X options described at https://docs.miktex.org/manual/miktexsetup.html) to see the packages installed already in Windows (miktex-console sees them in the list, I didn't need to download them again). However, I had to delete the filename databases, whose process is described at https://miktex.org/kb/fix-fndb-damaged Sadly, I could not get MiKTeX console to run in Admin mode (this may be a problem with WSL). Whenever I tried (even with sudo to launch the console), the program just exits and I saw no errors that were obvious. Also, LyX wasn't finding biber correctly, which turned out to be a symbolic link issue in MiKTeX. I had posted an issue on the MiKTeX github https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/400 and got a quick response that solved the above problems. Conclusion for today: It's working on my current system, for a complex document that uses biblatex and lots of packages (not a complete test, but encouraging nonetheless). I will delete my redundant TexLive install in WSL to save the gigs of SSD. On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:54 AM Kees Zeelenberg (kzStats) < kzsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for sharing - this is interesting. Did you turn off the option on > the Linux side to install automatically missing modules (assuming that such > an option exists there, too)? One of the nice things about MikTeX in > Windows is that the modules are loaded dynamically inside of LaTeX (or even > LyX). TeXLive has huge "chunks" for modules (via apt-get), at least as > far as I can tell. > > > > If you turn it on, then missing packages might be installed twice. I am > not sure if you can configure MikTeX such that packages are installed in > the common package directory (if I remember correctly, you cannot move it > up above the Linux root directories in the MixTeX console). If you turn it > off, then you must either install the packages by hand or switch to > Windows, which may not be such a problem when using WSL. You might also try > to add the Linux package directory to the list of root directories under > Windows; I haven’t tried this but perhaps it works. >
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