Click the Start Menu located on the lower left corner and choose Settings. Go to the Update & Security tab, choose For Developers and put a check on the Developer Mode. Next, hold the Windows Key and Press R. Type appwiz.cpl and Click OK. Choose Turn Windows Features on or off from the left pane. Scroll down to the bottom and place a check on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta). If you don’t see “Windows Subsystem for Linux” then you’re either not running the 14316 build or you’re not on a 64-bit versions of Windows. Unfortunately, the Windows Subsystem for Linux is only available on the 64-bit versions. Once done, reboot your system. After it has been rebooted, Hold the Windows Key and Press X. Choose Command Prompt (Admin) and type powershell in it. Once the powershell prompt appears, type bash and hit the return key.
Accept the license by keying in y and press the enter key again. powershell will begin downloading bash from the Windows Store.Once it has finished downloading, it will take you to the bash prompt as (root).
You can also access bash by clicking the Start Menu (button) and tap/click Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
Following are the issues i experienced on my little use of the bash shell on windows.
- It was slow.
- It had DNS issues which prevented the shell to resolve names. It did not even respond to the IP address.
- apt-get did not work.
After updating resolv.conf. the apt-get started working. To update resolv.conf do; add the following two lines to the conf file.
Hit the CTRL + X key and choose Y to save the resolv.conf file.
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