How to install Glowing Bear on Windows 10

1. Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from the Microsoft Store:

   • Visit the Microsoft Store
   • Search for and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
   • Launch the installed application

2. Verify that WSL is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as your WSL distribution:

   • Open up the command prompt in Windows (cmd)
   • Type wsl -l -v, and you should see output similar to:

   NAME            STATE           VERSION
   * Ubuntu-18.04   Running         2
   

   If you are not running Ubuntu 18.04 with version 2, update to version 2 by running:

   wsl --set-version Ubuntu-18.04 2
   

3. Install the necessary packages in Ubuntu:

   sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
   sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-pip python3-dev python3-venv
   

4. Clone the Glowing Bear GitHub repository:

   git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear.git
   

5. Navigate to the glowing-bear directory:

   cd glowing-bear
   

6. Setup a Python virtual environment:

   python3 -m venv wenv
   

7. Activate the virtual environment:

   source wenv/bin/activate
   

8. Install required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

9. Run Glowing Bear:

   python -m glowing_bear
   

10. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8181/ to access the Glowing Bear web interface.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed and launched Glowing Bear on Windows 10 using WSL.

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