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Windows: WSL 1 to WSL 2 issue with Docker command over Ubuntu Box

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  There are sometimes when we need to run docker commands like:  " docker-compose up -d httpd php " over Ubuntu Box in Windows environment with Docker Desktop installed in the windows and suddenly we start seeing an issue like as mentioned below: Issue: " The command 'docker-compose' could not be found in this WSL 1 distro. We recommend to convert this distro to WSL 2 and activate the WSL integration in Docker Desktop settings . " Here we need to understand that we need to convert the distro from WSL 1 to WSL 2 and need to activate the WSL integration in Docker Desktop settings. Based on the above 2 steps, let's start the first step which is to convert the distro from WSL 1 to WSL 2. We need to run the below command over PowerShell: Step 1: wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2 Step 2: Now we see there is one option "Enable integration with additional distro -> Ubuntu" started appearing under Docker Desktop-> Settings-> Resource-> WSL integrat