Fixing WSL

If you tried my first instructions and ran into some kind of python packaging error (looks like mysql is a culprit), here’s a patch

First, you should switch to your ml folder in WSL and delete the old environment.

$ cd ml # or whatever
$ deactivate # may not do anything if you didn't activate the env
$ rm -rf env # this deletes the old environment
$ asdf local python 3.11.9 # make sure you're on the right python
$ python -m venv env # make the virtual environment
$ source env/bin/activate # enable the new environment
$ pip install jupyterlab numpy scikit-learn matplotlib pandas
$ jupyter-lab # make sure it works

When I tried this on one student machine it worked. Jupyterlab runs in a browser and you may have to click on a link that appears in your console to get it to run. (the link will contain localhost or 127.0.0.1)

The problem seems to be an incompatibility with the packages I defined in requirements.txt. The Python Package Manager (pip) tries to resolve dependencies in a consistent manner but does not always succed (i.e. it usually fails on big projects.) I was hopeful the environment I carefully curated would work on windows AET machines but it doesn’t. This short pip install command installs what we need right now and will be fine until I can properly debug with my own machine.