Installing other tools in the Windows subsystem for Linux

At this point, you need to install the following supporting tools that we will be using throughout this book in the Windows Subsystem for Linux:

• Python
• pip package manager
• Docker Compose
• Git
• GNU Make
• jq
• Build essentials and Python development libraries (required to build dependencies of the sample application)

You just need to follow the normal Linux distribution procedures for installing each of the preceding components.  The Ubuntu 16.04 Windows subsystem for Linux distribution already includes Python 3, so you can run the following commands to install the pip package manager, and also set up your environment to be able to locate Python packages that you can install as user packages with the --user flag:

> curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
> python3 get-pip.py --user
Collecting pip
...
...
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1 setuptools-39.2.0 wheel-0.31.1
> rm get-pip.py
> python3 -m site --user-base
/mnt/c/Users/jmenga/.local
> echo 'export PATH=/mnt/c/Users/jmenga/.local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
> source ~/.bash_profile 

Now, you can install Docker Compose by using the pip install docker-compose --user command:

> pip install docker-compose --user
Collecting docker-compose
...
...
Successfully installed cached-property-1.4.3 docker-3.4.1 docker-compose-1.22.0 docker-pycreds-0.3.0 dockerpty-0.4.1 docopt-0.6.2 jsonschema-2.6.0 texttable-0.9.1 websocket-client-0.48.0
> docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.22.0, build f46880f

Finally, you can install Git, GNU Make, jq, tree, build essentials, and Python3 development libraries using the apt-get install command:

> sudo apt-get install git make jq tree build-essential python3-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
...
Setting up jq (1.5+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up make (4.1-6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
> git --version
git version 2.7.4
> make --version
GNU Make 4.1
Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> jq --version
jq-1.5-1-a5b5cbe