Installing Yarn on WSL

#wsl #yarn #wsldev

So I had my harddisk formatted and had to redo all my WSL dev environment setup.
I went to the yarn website to install yarn, and was left confused af. I didn't know which way to install yarn, there were so many different ways. Finally I found how to, and want to save it here as a blog post so that I won't have to go through it again.

So here's the magical command :

curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

Yep that's it. Copy it to your WSL terminal (fyi I had Ubuntu 20.04 installed) and yarn will be installed.

Now just restart the wsl terminal and type

yarn --version

If yarn installed successfully, then the current installed yarn version number is returned.

Have a good day!

Top comments (11)

Shay Elbaz • Feb 11 '21

I GET THIS ERROR?

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:928
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/mnt/c/Users/User/C:\Users\User.yarn\releases\yarn-1.22.10.cjs'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:925:15)
at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:769:27)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint as runMain
at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
requireStack: []
}