Difficulties setting up Kolibri environment on Windows (WSL)

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I’m trying to set up the Kolibri development environment on WSL Ubuntu. I cloned the repo (git clone GitHub - learningequality/kolibri: Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education) and navigated into it, but when I try to install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt I get an error saying the directory does not exist. I’m using Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL. I followed the instructions provided in https://kolibri-dev.readthedocs.io/en/develop/getting_started.html.Could anyone guide me on how to fix this and properly set up the environment?

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Hi Tejasvi,

Could you share the exact error message you’re seeing when you run pip install -r requirements.txt? That will help us diagnose the issue more accurately.

Also, if you could run these commands and share the output, that would be helpful:

pwd
ls -la

Thanks!
Allan.

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I ran the command pip install -r requirements.txt again and it worked . But I have another issue when I tried to install pip install e . I keep getting error.

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Hi Tejasvi,

Could you share the complete error output? The screenshot cuts off right after the warnings. The actual error message and traceback should be further down.

You can either take a longer screenshot that includes the full error or copy and paste the entire terminal output

Thanks!