pip fails to install in python2

[r3dy]

pip fails to install in python2

[R3dy]

Thanks for pointing this out. Is the issue resolved on your end? If so I'll put a note referencing this issue in the wiki for the short term. In the long term I should probably just update everything to use Python 3

[rufflabs]

That part yes. I am hitting other snags with Vagrant though. Trying to work through those. Not sure if its my setup, trying to use /mnt/f instead of /mnt/c

[R3dy]

What error are you getting? Can you try it from /mnt/c? I recall an issue I was having with the dir being outside the path recognized by VirtualBox but I failed to document it.

[rufflabs]

I finally figured out my other issues. They were related to permissions and mounting the drives with metadata. I was getting operation not permitted errors when both trying the vagrant plugin install commands and the git clone all failing. Now, I wonder if some of this is because I am still on Win10 2004. Not sure how things changed with Win10 20H2 or if that would affect anything.

One of the answers here on AskUbuntu was the solution for me:
Edit/create /etc/wsl.conf and ensure the following is there:

[automount]
options = metadata

Then exit the bash shell, open PowerShell and run wsl --shutdown to kill the WSL VM. I could then go back into Ubuntu and my user account had permissions to the /mnt/ drives. The git clone worked, the and the vagrant plugin install all worked without issue.

I agree that you should probably update it to support Python3, it appears as of this year it's rather annoying to continue using Python2. I'd offer to help, but Python is not one of my strengths. :)

[R3dy]

Closing as you seem to have sorted it out on your own