Update WSL troubleshooting in README.md #585
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This instructs WSL users they need to install
/usr/bin/ape
in order to usecosmo-binfmt.service
.I'm not an expert on αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε's or binfmt_misc, but I needed to install the APE loader to
/usr/bin/ape
as suggested in the Linux troubleshooting section in order to getcosmo-binfmt.service
to work on my WSL 2 Ubuntu installation.I also added the
--now
flag to thesystemctl enable
command for convenience.The Linux troubleshooting section adds entries with both
MZqFpD
andjartsr
as magic strings, so it's tempting to do the same incosmo-binfmt.service
for consistency, but I didn't need thejartsr
entry for theLlama-3.2-3B-Instruct.F16.llamafile
I tested this with, so I'm guessing that's only necessary for legacy executables and left it out.@jart Does this change make sense to you? I could submit a PR to update the https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan README to suggest adding the
cosmo-binfmt.service
too. It's nice to be able to support both APE and Windows binaries on WSL.