Run pip from Ubuntu terminal on Windows

Question

When I run this command in the Ubuntu terminal on Windows 10:

victor@DUMMYPC:/mnt/c/Users/user/Documents/programming$ pip show numpy

I receive this message:

Command 'pip' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install python-pip

On the other hand, when I run whereis:

victor@DUMMYPC:/mnt/c/Users/user/Documents/programming$ whereis pip

The system seems to find it:

pip: /mnt/c/Users/user/AppData/Local/Continuum/miniconda3/Scripts/pip.exe

I wonder what I would have to do to fix things and have execute pip without issues from the Ubuntu terminal.

Answer 1

According to this official WSL documentation from Microsoft:

WSL can invoke Windows binaries directly from the WSL command line using [binary name].exe. For example, notepad.exe.

Therefore, running pip.exe show numpy is the correct way to call pip in this instance (since pip was installed under Windows).