Installing Adobe Commerce – preparing Docker

We will install the platform from scratch using Warden, so let’s get started! Open your terminal application (we will be using it a lot more from now on) and follow these steps:

Working on Windows WSL

For this book, all coding tasks and operations will be done on a Windows machine to cover all based related to file sync between your local drive and the WSL 2 drive. The next few steps have been done on a Windows machine.

1. Make sure your Warden environment is working by typing the following:

   warden svc up

   You should see the following output:

Figure 2.10 – Checking whether Warden is running

2. Create a folder for your project. For our purposes, we will name it packt1 by using the mkdir command:

   mkdir packt1

   You can also create a folder by navigating to a proper folder, but you will still have to access it via CLI | terminal.

3. Enter the folder you created using cd:

   cd packt1

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