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- We no longer need to manually install WSL; the installer does that.
- We no longer need the canvas native dependencies.
  - This includes Visual Studio & Python 2 on Windows.
  - This includes pkg-config, cairo, etc. on macOS.
- Tools are added to the PATH on Windows now.

Signed-off-by: Mark Yen <mark.yen@suse.com>
2021-06-09 11:27:20 -07:00

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Installing Rancher Desktop

Rancher Desktop is delivered as a desktop application. You can download it from the releases page on GitHub.

When run for the first time or when changing versions, Kubernetes container images are downloaded. It may take a little time to load on first run for a new Kubernetes version.

Running on Windows requires Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL). This will be installed automatically during the Rancher Desktop setup process.

Note, the Windows installer is not yet signed. This will happen soon. In the meantime, when presented with a dialog box like the following, click on "More info".

The following dialog will then give you the option to run the application: