Trying out https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/preface/install.html#initialize-opam.
WSL2, using ubuntu on windows for 6 months.
Running opam init --bare -a -y
results in
opam: unknown option `--bare', did you mean one of `-b', `--safe', `--make'
or `--fake' ?
Usage: opam init [OPTION]... [NAME] [ADDRESS]
Try `opam init --help' or `opam --help' for more information.
Have no clue.
Tried ;
rebooting laptop
go to ~/ folder and try again
Try opam init bare -a -y instead, which resulted in
[ERROR] Base package base-threads of compiler system not found! Ignored.
[ERROR] Base package base-bigarray of compiler system not found! Ignored.
[ERROR] Base package base-unix of compiler system not found! Ignored.
[ERROR] Inconsistent set of base compiler packages: {} needed but not included / { base-bigarray, base-threads, base-unix } extra
[ERROR] Initialisation failed
You should update opam to at least opam 2 (preferably the last version). Command line interface are not compatible between major versions of opam.