Install the Latest Dev Tools on WSL with apt

            ⚡ The short answer. Yes, deb.griffo.io works on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). 61 developer tools install with plain apt on Ubuntu 24.04 on WSL and Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL and Debian on WSL, with the same setup command as Debian and Ubuntu: it reads UBUNTU_CODENAME / VERSION_CODENAME from /etc/os-release and asks for the matching suite, noble on Ubuntu 24.04 on WSL.
        

WSL runs a real Ubuntu or Debian on Windows, which means it also inherits their archives, where most developer tools are frozen at the version each release shipped with. deb.griffo.io serves the current upstream release of each tool below as an apt package, so a WSL terminal gets the same current toolchain as a Linux workstation.

🔍 Which suite your release gets

Release	Built on	Suite	Tools available
Ubuntu 24.04 on WSL	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat”	`noble`	61
Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy Jellyfish”	`jammy`	59
Debian on WSL	Debian 13 “Trixie”	`trixie`	63

Nothing about WSL changes the setup: the Ubuntu and Debian distributions in the Microsoft Store carry the normal /etc/os-release, so the command picks noble, jammy or the Debian suite on its own. Run it inside the WSL shell, not in PowerShell.

📦 Add the repository

Step 1: Add the repository & key

Run the commands

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update

install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg] https://deb.griffo.io/apt $(. /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list > /dev/null
apt update

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Step 2: Install any tool

sudo apt install -y neovim ripgrep fzf

apt install -y neovim ripgrep fzf

To check what the command will pick on your machine before running it: . /etc/os-release; echo ${DEBIAN_CODENAME:-${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}}. It should print one of the suites in the table above.

📋 Every tool available on WSL

Versions are what the repository serves for noble right now (updated 2026-10-19). Older releases get the same version wherever the tool is built for them; the last column says which are.

Tool	apt package	Version	Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL	Debian on WSL
Atuin	`atuin`	18.24.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
ble.sh	`ble.sh`	0.4.0-git20260908.d81fd54-2~griffo	✓	✓
bottom	`btm`	0.14.9-2~griffo	✓	✓
Bun	`bun`	1.4.3-3~griffo	✓	✓
cliamp	`cliamp`	2.3.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Deno	`deno`	2.9.7-3~griffo	✓	✓
difftastic	`difftastic`	0.70.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
DuckDB	`duckdb`	1.5.6-3~griffo	✓	✓
eza	`eza`	0.23.5-3~griffo	✓	✓
Fastfetch	`fastfetch`	2.66.0-3~griffo	✓	✓
fish	`fish`	4.9.3-2~griffo	✓	✓
Forgejo	`forgejo`	15.0.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
Forgejo Runner	`forgejo-runner`	13.2.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
fresh-editor	`fresh-editor`	0.5.3-2~griffo	✓	✓
fzf	`fzf`	0.74.5-2~griffo	✓	✓
Garage	`garage`	2.4.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
Ghostty	`ghostty`	not built	✗	✓
GitUI	`gitui`	0.28.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
GPU Screen Recorder	`gpu-screen-recorder-cli`	6.1.4-1~noble	✗	✓
Headscale	`headscale`	0.29.5-2~griffo	✓	✓
Helix	`helix`	25.07.1-3~griffo	✓	✓
herdr	`herdr`	0.9.5-2~griffo	✓	✓
Jujutsu	`jujutsu`	0.46.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
just	`just`	1.59.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
k9s	`k9s`	0.51.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
kitty	`kitty`	0.49.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
lazydocker	`lazydocker`	0.25.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
lazygit	`lazygit`	0.66.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
lazyjira	`lazyjira`	2.19.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
lowfi	`lowfi`	2.0.7-3~griffo	✗	✓
mitmproxy	`mitmproxy`	12.2.3-3~griffo	✓	✓
Neovim	`neovim`	0.12.6-2~griffo	✓	✓
Nushell	`nushell`	0.116.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
Oh My Posh	`oh-my-posh`	31.8.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
rclone	`rclone`	1.75.2-2~griffo	✓	✓
restic	`restic`	0.19.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
rgrc	`rgrc`	0.6.35-2~griffo	✓	✓
ripgrep	`ripgrep`	15.2.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Ruff	`ruff`	0.17.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
rumdl	`rumdl`	0.3.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Serie	`serie`	0.10.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Spotifast	`spotifast`	0.13.3-2~griffo	✓	✓
Starship	`starship`	1.27.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
superfile	`superfile`	1.6.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Television	`television`	0.15.9-2~griffo	✓	✓
Termusic	`termusic`	0.13.2-3~griffo	✓	✓
TigerBeetle	`tigerbeetle`	0.17.9-2~griffo	✓	✓
tldr	`tldr`	not built	✗	✓
tree-sitter-cli	`tree-sitter-cli`	0.27.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
Uncloud	`uncloud`	0.21.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
Unregistry	`unregistry`	0.4.3-2~griffo	✓	✓
uv	`uv`	0.13.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
viu	`viu`	1.6.1-3~griffo	✓	✓
workmux	`workmux`	0.1.276-2~griffo	✓	✓
Yazi	`yazi`	26.9.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
yq	`yq`	4.54.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
yt-dlp	`yt-dlp`	2026.08.19-2~griffo	✓	✓
ZapZap	`zapzap`	7.5.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
Zed	`zed`	1.24.3-1~griffo	✓	✓
Zellij	`zellij`	0.45.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
Zig	`zig-stable`	0.17.0-2~griffo	✓	✓
ZLS	`zls`	0.16.1-2~griffo	✓	✓
zoxide	`zoxide`	0.10.0-2~griffo	✓	✓

❓ Common questions

Do the tools work on WSL 1 and WSL 2?

They are ordinary Linux binaries, so they run on WSL 2. WSL 1 translates system calls and some tools that rely on newer kernel features may not run there; WSL 2 is the default and the one to use.

Is deb.griffo.io an official WSL repository?

No. It is an unofficial repository maintained by Dario Griffo, not affiliated with WSL. Every package is built automatically from the official upstream release, the packaging is open source on GitHub, and the archive is GPG-signed.

Does it cost anything?

The repository is a subscription (€15 a year or €150 once) with a free trial. A free mirror, deb-free.griffo.io, serves a smaller set of tools at a delay, with the same setup on this distro.

How do I remove the repository?

Delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb.griffo.io.list and /etc/apt/keyrings/deb.griffo.io.gpg, then run sudo apt update. Tools you installed stay until you apt remove them.

Latest developer tools on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)