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Install any distribution in WSL

Requirements:

  1. Required packages: 7zip-full, squashfs-tool
  2. Pre-installed "supported" distributions from Windows Store.
  3. root user access in WSL.

Arch Linux

  1. Login root user in that pre-installed WSL distribution and cd /root.
  2. Download latest Arch Linux ISO.
  3. Extract arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs file from it.
  4. Extract files from airootfs.sfs: unsquashfs -d temp airootfs.sfs
  5. Make GZIP tarball from those extracted files: tar -czf ../arch.tar.gz --hard-dereference *
  6. Install it with wsl.exe --import command.

Additional steps for Arch Linux:

  1. Allow required binaries e.g. pacman in Windows Firewall.
  2. Remove or rename /etc/resolv.conf file.
  3. Try to update packages with pacman -Syyu and allow all required PGP keys.
  4. Initialize keyring for pacman: pacman-key --init
  5. Reload the default keys (Source): pacman-key --populate
  6. Now install, update or upgrade packages.