codas3_wsl_instructions

For information on Common Ocean Data Access System (CODAS) and University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) see https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/docs/adcp_doc/index.html

This repo was created because there is sometimes a desire to install codas3 using Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL2). UHDAS does not officially support this however for convenience David Vadnais has tested this capability here.

Prerequisites

• Install WSL2
• Choose a distro
• See tested distros.
• Install mercurial
• Install python3
• Install unzip

Tested Linux Distributions

Windows 10

• 20.04.01

Windows 11

• None

Test hardware

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-core Processor
• Memory: 32 GB
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
• Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB