Default Ubuntu 24.04 WSL install has packages compability errors

[joey-dube]

I was following the ctf-2026 tutorial to setup a fresh WSL Ubuntu 24.04 for CTF developement.

This then pointed me to this ctf-script repo.

Installing the script using uv or pip failed because of a python version error (followed by some conflicting packages).

This fixed it for me:

1. Updating the default python: https://cloudbytes.dev/snippets/upgrade-python-to-latest-version-on-ubuntu-linux
2. Manually updating argcomplete: pip install git+https://github.com/nsec/ctf-script.git

Then the pip version of the installer worked.

[MOBergeron]

On WSL2, minimum Python is 3.9? Even with uv it does not work? If you force uv to use Python3.11+, it does not work?

[joey-dube]

The python version problem was a user error, my bad.

I tried again on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 WSL2 install:
The uv installation fails because astral-uv is not installed by default.
The pipx version works perfectly.

[MOBergeron]

To install uv you have to run an install script, see here..