I have a WSL instance, Ubuntu 20.04 and I have created another Ubuntu 18.04 WSL instance. I installed Poetry on the 20.04 without issues. I am trying to install Poetry on the Ubuntu 18.04 instance, using the curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python3 - command. At the moment, my $HOME env var points to /home/fromzeroedu. However, after installation, Poetry is installed on my Windows user home: $ which poetry /mnt/c/Users/j/.poetry/bin/poetry And if I try getting the version, I get: $ poetry --version /usr/bin/env: ‘python\r’: Permission denied I even tried setting the POETRY_HOME prior to installation: export POETRY_HOME=/home/fromzeroedu/.poetry/bin/poetry But Poetry still installs in the Windows user directory. Sometimes I love Poetry... Continue reading...