After setup, I cannot get Pi-hole to actually run

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Expected Behaviour:

I am trying to set up pi-hole on my PC. I know it's not quite standard (as this PC is, notably, not a Raspberry Pi), but I figure it should be roughly the same setup, right?

Anyway, I am running Ubuntu 22.04 (this is a WSL2 Distro). I have an IP reserved on my router and have set up lighttpd accordingly.

Actual Behaviour:

After all the setup, I get the following error:

[✗] DNS service is NOT running
[✗] DNS service is NOT running

Yes, it prints that twice. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but that does happen. I'm just rather unsure about where to go from here. I cannot access the admin dashboard either, so I cannot debug from there.

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/u9Ps1yzT/

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Apparently you are running Pi-hole in Windows, using WSL. I'm not sure if this will work.

The issue is another service using port 53, but no name was found for this service:

[✗] udp:10.255.255.254:53 is in use by  (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
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[✗] tcp:10.255.255.254:53 is in use by  (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)

[2024-10-30 21:34:01.307 64837M] FATAL ERROR in dnsmasq core: failed to create listening socket for 10.255.255.254: Address already in use
[2024-10-30 21:34:01.311 64837M] ########## FTL terminated after 17ms (code 1)! ##########

You need to disable the service using this port.

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