ubuntu-windows-setup

I recently had to set up Ubuntu on Windows 10; here are some things I found useful.

Installation

Do the following:

make sure you are running Windows 10
get the Windows 10 anniversary update
install the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Setup

Here are the packages that I installed.

Git

$ sudo apt-get install git
# check installation:
$ git --version
git version 1.9.1

Java 8 JDK

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
# check runtime installation:
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)
# check compiler installation:
$ javac -version
javac 1.8.0_131

source: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html

Maven

$ sudo apt-get install maven
# check installation:
$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.5
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_131, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.4.0+", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Removing packages

Most packages are removed in the standard way:

$ sudo apt-get remove <package-name>

However, Java 8 was a bit different:

$ sudo apt-get remove oracle-java8-installer
$ sudo apt-get purge oracle-java8-installer
$ sudo apt-get autoremove

source: https://askubuntu.com/a/850740