Allow python in Windows Firewall. Link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/troubleshooting

@Biswa96 How do I allow WSL Python in Windows Firewall? Is it possible to access WSL file from Windows?

Allow this path in Windows Firewall:

"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\usr\bin\python3.6"

The path may vary in Ubuntu versions from Windows Store. Explanation here: https://superuser.com/a/1325042/726810

Also check the /etc/resolv.conf file if any DNS server is present. If not then try to add, for example, echo nameserver 1.1.1.1 > /etc/resolv.conf (yes, by overwriting).

This could work

sudo apt -y purge python-pip
sudo python -m pip uninstall pip
sudo apt -y install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
echo "export PATH=\"${HOME}/.local/bin:$PATH\"" >>"${HOME}"/.bashrc

@Biswa96 I can't configure the path.

@MatheusRV pip install --upgrade pip gives me same error message 😢

Oh... Change the username to your user name in your PC

That's my mistake...But result is same.

The cause was my Kaspersky app. If I turn off it, everything works well. I've raised this issue to Kaspersky.

This worked for me.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt install python3-pip

This worked for me.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt install python3-pip

Thanks, this worked for me

No matter how many times I restart WSL, Windows automatically changes its name server and assign by itself.

So I change little bit as Belows,
in Windows Security > Firewall & Network Protection
In Public & private network turn off this 👇🏻
Block all incoming connections, including those in the list of allowed apps.

Restart WSL and its work like charm

Env :-
Win10
WSL2 / ubuntu 22.04

Within conda environment, I get this error when I use pip for the first time.
To fix it

1. Install a python package using conda e.g. conda install matplotlib
2. Then use pip install for other packages.

Env:
Win11 WSL2 / ubuntu 22.04
Firewall and proxy: off

Hello everybody,

To use pip3 on WSL2 you need to force using the ".exe" binary on your command line

pip            pip.exe     pip3         pip3.8         pip3.8.exe     pip3.exe
^ not work     ^ work      ^ not work   ^ not work     ^ work         ^ work

You need to install Python under windows before

me@computer:~$ whereis pip3.8
pip3: /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip3.8 /opt/az/bin/pip3 /opt/az/bin/pip3.6 /mnt/c/Python38/Scripts/pip3.exe /usr/share/man/man1/pip3.1.gz
me@computer:~$ whereis pip3.8.exe
pip3.8: /usr/local/bin/pip3.8 /mnt/c/Python38/Scripts/pip3.8.exe

This has solved my ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError when trying to pip install in WSL2

I am using Python3.10 and this worked for me.

curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.10

Chances are you will have issues with pipenv installation, to resolve those, if they occur, use python3 -m pip install pipenv

I have been having this problem and did add all my proxy settings to /etc/environment and name resolutions to /etc/resolve.conf. But that was not enough for pip to work. But exporting the https_proxy in the terminal did the magic. I am not sure why this worked though.

export https_proxy="https://proxyIP:port"

This worked for me. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt install python3-pip

Thankx a lot brother.

Hi, for me, the thing that fixed it was disconnecting my VPN connection and just connecting to wifi directly.

I got error in upgrading pip and I can't install any pip packages. I remove it and re installed it but it saying error. Please tell me any Solutions

This worked for me. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt install python3-pip

This didn't work. Had to:

• open powershell on windows
• run wsl --update

This saved me!

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