View source for IRODS iCommands installation on Windows

In order to use iRODS iCommands on Windows, you'll need to follow these steps:

1. '''Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10'''

 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

2. '''Once you have WSL installed you should install your Linux distribution of choice'''
 
  - we recommend Ubuntu 18.04 LTS due to binary distributions availability
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#step-6---install-your-linux-distribution-of-choice

  - setup your user and password on linux "machine"

3. '''iRODS Packages in APT repositories''' 

 Login and install the public key and add the repository:
 
 wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -
 echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.irods.org/apt/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list
 sudo apt-get update

4. '''iCommand installation and configuration'''

 sudo apt install irods-icommands

5. '''Mounting Network Drives into Windows Subsystem Linux (optional)'''
 info : https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/archive/blogs/wsl/wsl-file-system-support

Microsoft uses a new type of file system called DrvFs behind the scenes to allow the Linux subsystem to talk to native Windows directories. So you end up mounting a network drive just like you would mount any other media normally.

Let's say you've got a server on your network usually accessible as \\MyNetworkDrive. To mount it into your WSL, you can do the following:

 sudo mkdir /mnt/mynetworkdrive
 sudo mount -t drvfs '\\MyNetworkDrive' /mnt/mynetworkdrive
 
Note: Use single quotes to avoid awkwardness around the backslashes in the network drive name.

If you have mapped the network drive to a drive letter S: on your Windows system already: 
 
 sudo mkdir /mnt/mynetworkdrive
 sudo mount -t drvfs S: /mnt/mynetworkdrive

If you ever want to unmount it:

 sudo umount /mnt/mynetworkdrive