Installing root on microsoft surface

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Hi!
I enabled wsl on my computer and I’ve got Ubuntu 20.04 and I wanted to install root on there proceeding via binary distribution.
The problem is that my processor is a Microsoft SQ2, based on arm architecture, and the release of Root for Ubuntu 20 is called [
root_v6.28.06.Linux-ubuntu20-x86_64-gcc9.4.tar.gz] so I don’t think it’s right for my processor. However, I tried to install root anyway and I got this error “/home/camillaberti/root_v6.28.06.Linux-ubuntu20-x86_64-gcc9.4/bin/root: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error”. Is there a way to solve this?
Thank you in advance

ROOT Version: v6.28.06
Platform: Microsoft Surface Pro X
Compiler: gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.4.0

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Hi @camillaberti, welcome to the ROOT forum!

Unfortunately you can’t use an x86 build on ARM, and we don’t release Ubuntu binaries for ARM.

You’d have to compile ROOT from source, as described here:

Let us go how it goes, I’m curious because you are probably the first to use ROOT on Windows ARM under WSL!

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