mikkokotola/winenvsetup

Instructions & scripts to setup a Windows + Linux subsystem environment

Installation of Win + Linux subsystem environment

The aim of these instructions and scripts is to quickly setup a working Windows + Linux subsystem environment for development and general office usage.

Preconditions: Win10/Win10pro/Win11 installed

Repo contents

• InstallTools.ps1 contains a powershell script to install Chocolatey (if not installed) and then install all the packages listed in toolspackages.txt using Choco.
• toolspackages.txt contains a list of packages to install in Windows
• checksha512.ps1 contains a Powershell script for checking the SHA512 of a file against the SHA512 value given in a second file. Usage like checksha512.ps1 file1.exe file1.exe.sha512

Instructions

1. Activate WSL2 & set linux user creds

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/setup/environment

2. Set Powershell default execution policy for user

• In admin powershell, run Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Force

3. Install Chocolatey Package Manager and packages using script

• Make sure you are in the root dir of this repo
• In admin powershell, run .\InstallTools.ps1. This will install Choco and use it to install all packages listed in toolspackages.txt.

4. Install AWS SAM CLI

• Not available through Choco
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-sam-cli-install-windows.html

5. Install AWS CloudFormation Linter

• Install CFN-lint and Pydot (visualizing) with pip using pip install cfn-lint and pip install pydot

6. Install NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.settingup.html

7. Install VS Code extensions

• Python
• Jupyter
• Go
• AWS Toolkit
• CloudFormation Linter
• Git Extension Pack
• Git Graph
• Docker