Google Chrome for WSL

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#1

Hi there,

Need some assistance with an issue opening Chrome from in bash on WSL.

In “Intro to HTML”, “Hello HTML” the curriculum advises to use the bash command “open html-hello-world.html” however when I attempt to run this command I get the below error :

`Command ‘open’ not found, did you mean: command ‘pen’ from deb pen (0.34.1-1build1) command ‘gopen’ from deb gnustep-gui-runtime (0.27.0-5build2) command ‘wopen’ from deb gworkspace.app (0.9.4-2) Try: sudo apt install ’

Any suggestions, I’ve tried some fixes from stack overflow such as creating an alias for chrome but no luck.

Thanks for your help.

#2

I honestly could not find a way to get it to open an html file (through Google Chrome) without some other commands I wasn’t yet familiar (didn’t want to spend too much time on it since I only had a few days to get the work done, trying to get in last minute to this month’s PT cohort lol). So, I just open the file in Vs Code, browser sync is a great way to get it to auto refresh on save but I haven’t tried it with Ubuntu (WSL). Anyway, I used “run open file” in VSC and that’s about the fastest workaround I could find.