Solution for WSL2 execution on Ubuntu

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If you try to deploy this codebase as it is in WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 (python3.12) you will run into three issues:

• distutils not being found
• gio: http://localhost:8501: Operation not supported
• Application trying to access duplicate dezoomcamp folder: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user2/github/de-zoomcamp-ui/dezoomcamp/dezoomcamp/DE_Zoomcamp.py'

1. disutils is deprecated for later versions of python3, to fix this verify/install python3-setuptools via sudo apt install python3-setuptools
   then recreate your python3 environment, but use --system-site-packages in the end to allow env access to system packages such as setuptools

2. gio error means that it cannot open the browser. We can fix this by installing wslu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wslutilities/wslu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wslu

If you think it's an overkill, maybe you can install wslview separately or play around with browser specific env variables in bashrc.

3. FileNotFoundError, idk, I thought maybe venv placement is the cause, maybe it should be in dezoomcamp folder, but this is not the cause. Either way the solution is rather simple. Go to de-zoomcamp-ui and run it like this streamlit run dezoomcamp/DE_Zoomcamp.py