Installing WSL (Windows only)

Nowadays, Linux and macOS X are among the most predominant OS used by developers. Windows recently released a partnership with Canonical, the company behind one of the most popular Linux distributions, support for Bash, and most of the common Linux packages. By installing this tool on Windows, we will be able to  interact with our servers more efficiently, which will also run Linux:

1. Click on the Start button and search for settings, and then open the Settings application:

2. This will lead you to the following window, where you have to search for Windows Update settings. Open the Windows Update settings menu:

3. In the left-hand side menu of Windows Update settings, click on the For developers sub-menu and turn on the Developer mode option.
4. Once your developer mode is turned on, search in the search bar on the left-hand-side menu for the Control Panel option:

5. In the Control Panel dashboard, select the Category option from the View by drop-down, and click on the Programs option. Then, under Programs and Features, click on the Turn Windows features on or off option:

6. In this menu, find the feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta), and click on the OK button:

This will install the feature and ask you to restart your computer.

7. Once you are back in Windows, click on the Start button again, search for bash, and start the Bash on Ubuntu on the Windows application:

8. After a few initialization steps, you will be able to use Bash on Windows in the same way you would on Linux.

From that point on, use the Bash application to run the commands present in the book.