Running spinningup in Linux Subsystem on Windows (Success)

For people who are on windows 10 and do not have linux but want to make things work.

1. you can enable the WSL in your windows 10 following this.
2. Install Xming X window server for windows from here. and make sure it is running.
3. Once WSL is working : Open cmd, type in “bash”, this will switch the cmd to WSL terminal, then run the following it will enable GUI for WSL . Copied from this stackoverflow answer.

    sudo apt-get install x11-apps
    export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 
    nano ~/.bashrc  #(add  export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0   at the end. Ctrl+X to exit/save)
    sudo apt-get install gnome-calculator #will get you GTK

1. Download miniconda for linux from here. It will be an “.sh” file.
2. from the terminal go to the folder you downloaded the file to and run “bash <name_of_downloaded_file>”, this will install conda.
3. follow the spinningup tutorial for rest of installation.

[daniele-niero]

Awesome! Thanks for doing this. I’ve updated the installation page to reference this issue, so others can follow your instructions.

Spinning Up should also work on Windows though. Limiting its usage to Linux and Mac means shutting the door to many potential users, contributors and people that eager to learn. Even if we all agree that Windows is a lesser system, we can’t deny that is widely spread one, one that teaching material such as Spinning Up shouldn’t ignore.

[jachiam]

Awesome! Thanks for doing this. I’ve updated the installation page to reference this issue, so others can follow your instructions.