System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Couldn't find an alternative telinit implementation to spawn

Question

I have tried to install waves on Ubuntu 18.04LTS link for installing waves in ubuntu : https://docs.waves.tech/en/waves-node/how-to-install-a-node/on-ubuntu

command: sudo apt install waves

And I got this error

Error:System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Couldn't find an alternative telinit implementation to spawn.

and i also get same error when I use commands like:

1. sudo service waves.service start
2. sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/waves_1.2.17_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i waves_1.2.17_all.deb
4. sudo systemctl start waves.service

And if I use command according to this link: https://linuxhandbook.com/system-has-not-been-booted-with-systemd/

command : sudo service waves.service start

then it gives error:

Error: waves.service: unrecognized service

can anyone please help me with it?

Answer 1

WSL doesn't support systemd and so:

systemctl .....

won't work

Instead use service and so:

sudo service waves start