WSL

Local setup on windows

In a corporate setting, proxy information is very hard to deal with. I’ve encountered a strange error.

After running the command below within WSL and obtained the correct result, it was identified that the proxy setting was not picked up by WSL

curl --proxy http://xx.xxx.xxx.100:8080 http://google.com

So in the Home folder, there is a configuration file for WSL. Mine is located at C:\Users\myuserid\.wslconfig I need to change the autoProxy from false to true.

[wsl2]
autoProxy=true

Now, curl google.com or curl testproxy.info works fine.

However, when I ran sudo apt update or install, I still got errors. Somehow in the apt configurations, it is using the .10 instead of .100. I was instructed by our IT colleague that to set the proxy in the apt request like below.

sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::proxy="http://xx.xxx.xxx.100:8080" update
sudo apt install -o Acquire::http::proxy="http://xx.xxx.xxx.100:8080" libssl-dev

This solved my problem. It is always hard to find the right colleague to solve the issue. I have filed the issue a while ago, was contacted by several colleagues but today it worked like a charm. The colleague was quick to identify the problem, also quick to find a solution that works for me. Thanks to him, I can go to my vacation peacefully with one resolved issue.