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 Unable to locate package libXft.so.2. Can someone help me out, please?









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          Looking up libxFt.so.2 in Ubuntu Packages yield package libxft2, so install it as follow.



          sudo apt-get install libxft2




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            Looking up libxFt.so.2 in Ubuntu Packages yield package libxft2, so install it as follow.



            sudo apt-get install libxft2




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              Looking up libxFt.so.2 in Ubuntu Packages yield package libxft2, so install it as follow.



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                Looking up libxFt.so.2 in Ubuntu Packages yield package libxft2, so install it as follow.



                sudo apt-get install libxft2




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                sudo apt-get install libxft2





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