https://github.com/Menziess/WSL-Being-Productive-Under-Corporate-Restrictive-Policy

Installing WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) under corporate restrictions such as Windows Store blocked, executable downloading blocked, network access blocked.
https://github.com/Menziess/WSL-Being-Productive-Under-Corporate-Restrictive-Policy

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Installing WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) under corporate restrictions such as Windows Store blocked, executable downloading blocked, network access blocked.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Menziess/WSL-Being-Productive-Under-Corporate-Restrictive-Policy
• Owner: Menziess
• Created: 2018-12-08T17:41:14.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-24T09:00:27.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-13T07:16:06.400Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: connection, corporations, employees, internet, linux, network, policy, proxy, restrictive, subsystem, vpn, windows-store, windows-subsystem-linux, workaround, wsl
• Language: Shell
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• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# WSL Being Productive Under Corporate Restrictive Policy

Big corporations may hinder an employees productivity with restrictive policies, narrowing the employees toolset down to Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft command line, Putty, and other installables. Some corporations even shut down Windows Store, so that the employee is not able to install Windows Subsystem for Linux.

## 1. Activate Subsystem

1. Press the `windows key`

1. Search for `Powershell`

1. Right click and `Run as administrator`

1. `Paste`:

    ```bash

    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

    ```

1. Press `Y`

## 2. Install Distribution

> **Note:** Ubuntu 1804 is commonly used, so we'll use that as an example.

1. `Download` Distribution:

    ```bash

    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1804 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing

    ```

1. `Rename` the file extension and `extract`:

    ```bash

    Rename-Item ~/Ubuntu.appx ~/Ubuntu.zip

    Expand-Archive ~/Ubuntu.zip ~/Ubuntu

    ```

1. In the target folder, `execute ubuntu1804.exe`

## 3. Enable Network for apt, curl, and wget

1. Enter your username, password, and proxy settings in the following script, and run it:

    ```bash

    echo export http_proxy=http://:@:/ >> ~/.bashrc

    echo export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy >> ~/.bashrc

    echo "check_certificate = off" >> ~/.wgetrc

    echo insecure >> ~/.curlrc

    source ~/.bashrc

    ```

    

## 4. Update packages and distro

1. Download updates:

    ```bash

    sudo apt update -y

    sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

    ```

    

1. Run the script in this repo to set additional proxy settings, install Pipenv and Pyenv:

    ```bash

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Menziess/WSL-Being-Productive-Under-Corporate-Restrictive-Policy/master/mad_scientist.sh | bash

    ```