Trying to launch gui for spyder in anaconda in WSL windows 11

I am currently trying to run spyder on wsl using xLauncher. I am running wsl 2 on Ubuntu. I could not get the GUI for spyder to load using xLauncher.

First I installed Ubuntu wsl --install --distribution Ubuntu,

went into root directory sudo su,

downloaded anaconda wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2024.02-1-Linux-x86_64.sh,

installed anaconda bash Anaconda3-2024.02-1-Linux-x86_64.sh,

then I restarted wsl so the conda environment could take effect,

I then downloaded spyder conda install spyder,

I downloaded xLauncher and launched it changing display number to 0,

echo $DISPLAY outputs :0,

I then try and launch spyder, getting the following error:

File "/root/anaconda3/bin/spyder", line 11, in <module>    sys.exit(main())             ^^^^^^  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 252, in main    from spyder.app import mainwindow  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 46, in <module>    from qtpy.compat import from_qvariant  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qtpy/compat.py", line 16, in <module>    from .QtWidgets import QFileDialog  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qtpy/QtWidgets.py", line 36, in <module>    from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I then run apt update and apt upgrade and conda update --all, a bunch of stuff updates but I get the same error message.

Then according to this thread I run apt-get install qtbase5-dev and the error message changes to

File "/root/anaconda3/bin/spyder", line 11, in <module>    sys.exit(main())             ^^^^^^  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 252, in main    from spyder.app import mainwindow  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 57, in <module>    from qtpy import QtWebEngineWidgets  # analysis:ignore    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 28, in <module>    from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import (ImportError: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so then according to this thread, I did apt-get install libasound2 and it worked!

I was compiling the list of things I had tried and I guess I finally did it in the correct order.

Edit: so the reason I wanted spyder and python on wsl was for the newer tensorflow versions to work on my GPU. Well conda cannot install a new enough version of tensorflow so I had to re-do my entire conda environment through pip, after which I got another error opening spyder:

File "/root/anaconda3/envs/options/bin/spyder", line 8, in <module>    sys.exit(main())             ^^^^^^  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/options/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 252, in main    from spyder.app import mainwindow  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/options/lib/python3.11/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 57, in <module>    from qtpy import QtWebEngineWidgets  # analysis:ignore    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/options/lib/python3.11/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 28, in <module>    from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import (ImportError: libsmime3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which was fixed after looking at this thread by doing apt-get install libnss3