upgrading ubuntu in windows subsystem for linux

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 9, in <module>
    from DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeGettext import gettext as _
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeGettext.py", line 23, in <module>
    import gettext as mygettext
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gettext'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook
    from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from apport.report import Report
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 15, in <module>
    import xml.dom, xml.dom.minidom
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xml'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 9, in <module>
    from DistUpgrade.DistUpgradeGettext import gettext as _
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeGettext.py", line 23, in <module>
    import gettext as mygettext
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gettext'