WSL Warmup

For some reason, I find myself installing fresh WSL instances for different purposes quite often, and finally decided to put together this collection of the most often used recipes.

This is sort of insecure, but for my needs it is ok

Editing sudo config is recommended using a tool visudo. The on-screen tips help with saving the file:

sudo visudo /etc/sudoers.d/user     # use the user name here

Just one line in the file is enough, user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL substitute “user” with the name of the desired user.

The included in the Ubuntu repos version is often lagging behind, and we want the most up-to-date.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

A handy guide for installing Node on WSL is listed in Microsoft’s docs here, run the suggested command:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash
nvm install node
nvm use node

Now nvm ls should give some meaningful output with green text. And npm i can be run inside a freshly cloned repo folder successfully.

Install dependencies (recommended by wiki)

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm \
libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

Utilize the awesome pyenv installer

curl https://pyenv.run | bash

As suggested by the installer, add the following to the .bashrc and .profile:

export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

And now in a new terminal window pyenv update should yield proper results.
Install the desired python version:

pyenv install -l        # pick from the list
pyenv install 3.10.6    # for example

Published on Aug 2, 2022