First off, this is based on the installation guide made by Visate. Without his steps, I would have been stuck!
For more info regarding many of the below steps. please read more on his page.

https://github.com/Visate/communeai-scratchpad

YouTube version.
https://youtu.be/XyiW0suKqyo

(for the people that would like to know what you are installing, you can find links at the bottom of the page)

Your IP needs to be a public IP (as in not behind a nat) and ensure you have setup port forwarding rules. Otherwise, Commune will not work! See step 9 for more details.

• Right click the Start menu and open Windows Powershell (admin).
• First set the default version of WSL.

wsl --set-default-version 2

• Make sure WSL is up to date.

wsl --update

• Install Ubuntu 22.04
• During the installation, set user and password and remember them!

wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04 

• We could continue directly from here but it is good to check if all is working, so let's close the Powershell window.

• Click on the Start menu and start Ubuntu, there should now be a shortcut for Ubuntu in the Start menu.
• Let's start with updating and upgrading our installation.

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

If you see a message regarding libcuda.so, you can ignore this. It is just a warning.

• Install pip

sudo apt install -y python3-pip

• Install pipenv

pip install pipenv --user

• Check path (result for me: /home/omni/.local)

python3 -m site --user-base

• Update path, append /bin to the above path. Replace omni with your username.

export PATH="/home/omni/.local/bin:$PATH"

• Permanently add to the path

nano ~/.bashrc 

• This opens Nano text editor, use the arrow keys on your keyboard and go down to the end of the file.
• Paste or write (export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH") without () at the end of the file, if you are new to Nano, one right-click will paste where the cursor is.
• Once you have added the above line, press CTRL + x, answer Y and press enter to save and overwrite.

• Install dependencies.

pipenv install click numpy protobuf==3.20 streamlit

• Start pipenv

pipenv shell

• Clone Commune Git

git clone https://github.com/commune-ai/commune.git

• Change directory

cd commune

• Pull latest files

make pull

• Run install for commune

pip install -e ./

• Run the below commands, one after the other.

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y

source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

rustup install nightly-2023-01-01

rustup override set nightly-2023-01-01

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown

• Replace omni with your username

sudo chown -R omni:omni ~/.commune

• You should still be in the ~/commune folder. (~/ This is a shortcut to your home folder).
• Let's see if you can list the modules.

c modules

• If you could see a list of modules, congratulations!, commune is now working!

• Now that we know that Commune is running, lets set the port range for Commune (this is the ports you need to set in the port forward rule).
• The blow range is just an example.

c set_port_range 50000 55000 

• If you could see a list of modules, congratulations!, commune is now working!

• Find your root key, this is good to save.

c root_key

• You can start a local node if you need to. There could be some extra configuration depending on your system, see below for more info.

c start_local_node

• If you want to or need to get back into Commune and use it, do the following.
• Start Ubuntu from the Start menu.
• Open the commune folder

cd commune

• Start the pipenv

pipenv shell

• From here you can use any of the commune commands i.e. c mcap, c stats and so on.
• Best of luck!
  
  
  
  

• Before you begin the below steps, you need to reboot at least once after completing the above steps and setting up Commune.
• Install Docker

sudo apt install docker.io

• Add your user to docker group

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

• REBOOT Windows!!, do not skip this step.
• Go to the commune folder
• Start the pipenv

pipenv shell

• Enter commune folder

cd ~/commune/

• Start local node

c start_local_node

• If you have issues installing Ubuntu on step 1, run the four below commands and reboot your computer.

wsl --unregister Ubuntu-22.04

wsl --shutdown

netsh winsock reset

netsh int ip reset

• If you see an error like this "fatal: No url found for submodule path 'comchat' in .gitmodules" when you try make pull, run this and try again.

git rm --cached comchat

• If you see this error in the dashboard KeyError: 'module', enter the below and try starting the cash again.

c dash public=true

c st public=true

• WSL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
• Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/
• Python: https://www.python.org/
• PIP: https://pypi.org/project/pip/
• pipenv: https://pypi.org/project/pipenv/
• Shell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)
• Commune: https://github.com/commune-ai/commune
• Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/
• Docker: https://www.docker.com/
• Why update your PATH: https://realpython.com/add-python-to-path/#how-to-add-python-to-path-on-linux-and-macos