Installer says "This is Windows" when I run it in Git Bash — what should I use instead?

Asked 15 Mar 202210,280 views2 answers

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I copied the macOS/Linux one-liner into Git Bash because that is where I live on this machine. It refuses immediately:

text

This is Windows (MINGW64_NT-10.0-19044).
  Use PowerShell instead:
    irm https://sdods.com/install.ps1 | iex
  Or install inside WSL, where this script works normally.

I do have WSL. Which one is actually the right answer if I want to run browser tests?

install windows linux

asked by Sam Orbison9,420 · 15 Mar 2022

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Accepted answer
Both are supported, and the choice follows where your tests will run, not where you happen to be typing.
- Testing a Windows browser, or you want the app on Windows: use PowerShell. The shell script deliberately refuses under MSYS/MinGW because half the paths it builds would be wrong in ways that only surface later.
- Testing on Linux, or matching a Linux CI runner: install inside WSL and use the ordinary one-liner there. Inside WSL it is a normal Linux install and nothing is special about it.
What you should not do is install on Windows and then drive it from a WSL shell, or the reverse. Two filesystems, two browser caches, and the failures are confusing out of all proportion to the cause.
The PowerShell form is:
powershell
```
irm https://sdods.com/install.ps1 | iex
```
answered by Daniel Oyelaranmaintainer24,177 · 15 Mar 2022
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And if you go the WSL route, keep the workspace on the Linux side of the filesystem. Running a suite out of /mnt/c/... is slow enough that people assume the tool is slow.
answered by Marijn Kuiper18,840 · 16 Mar 2022

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