notes on installation
This page helped me the most (August 2016); clear steps and screenshots.
Another installation guide went through the pre-requisites, and seems to have the same installation steps, but I did use the above for the final installation.
No matter which method you use, there will probably be at least 2 restarts once critical components are installed. I can't get Windows 10 to stop auto-updating and restarting whenever it wants, anyway....
I first read Scott Hanselman's post on the subject (March 2016), but it was extremely light on the installation details. He links to a 30-minute video he did on using the system, which I've yet to watch.
Installing nodejs
Notes @ https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
But the following is what I used for Node v6
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
node
is nodejs
on Ubuntu. Running
Needed a couple of pre-requisites
sudo apt-get install pkg-config sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev
I had already installed a package that used canvas
(Darius Kazemi's Reverse OCR) and so I navigated to the directory, executed sudo npm i
. I had to fake config.js
and permissions.js
for the app, as well as hard-code some words that were normally obtained from Wordnik (I could have used real keys, but that's outside the scope of this test). I then ran nodejs index.js
.... and got an out.png
file. I opened it up outside of the WSL BASH - and it was what I expected!

There are other projects I want to try - but this was the first I found back using canvas.
I've been working solely with generated text for the past couple of years due to nodejs image-library issues on windows.
Looks like the WSL may solve all of my problems!
Caveats
It was not as easy as the above - I've cut out all of the obviously embarrassing mistakes (and left only the non-obvious mistakes).
Misc
Files - C:\Users\<Windows-username>\AppData\Local\lxss\home\<WSL-username>
Wikipedia:Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/07/22/fun-with-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/ - including NetHack
(I've gotten NetHack running on windows in the past connected to windows Emacs. It's been at least 6 years, though....)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
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