Steps for setting up Arch Linux on WSL2

ArchLinuxWSL2.md

Upgrading to WSL 2

• Download WSL2 Kernel
• run wsl --set-default-version 2 in windows command line, so that all future WSL machine will use WSL2.

Installing Arch Linux

Basic installation

• Download ArchWSL installer zip, pick a folder (for example, c:\archlinux) for Arch Linux and run installer .exe in that folder.

Initialize package manager

• Refresh Pacman GPG keys:

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate
pacman-key --refresh-keys
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

• Run pacman -Syyu to update all packages to the latest versions

Install zsh, optional

• Install zsh: pacman -S zsh

Create a user

• Add a sudo group: groupadd sudo
• Enable sudoers: nano /etc/sudoers and uncomment lines %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL and %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
• Add new admin user: useradd -m -G wheel,sudo -s /bin/zsh <username>, use -s /bin/bash if you want bash instead of zsh.
• Set password for the new user: passwd <username>
• Run Windows command shell, go to the directory with Arch Linux, run Arch.exe config --default-user <username>. Now you have basic ArchLinux with user.
• (OR) On Windows Terminal, append the following to Command Line: -u <username>

Software

1. yay:

pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si

2. oh-my-zsh:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

3. wsl-vpntoolkit
4. Development Tools

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm python neovim lazygit wget zip unzip npm tmux luarocks cmake openssh mcfly
yay -S micromamba