Setup ArchLinux in WSL

Sources

arch linux wsl docs

Setup User

Set root password

passwd

Install sudo

pacman -Syu
pacman -S sudo nvim vi nano
groupadd sudo
visudo # Uncomment %sudo ...

Create the user

useradd -u 1000 -g 1000 -m -s /bin/bash woelke
usermod -aG sudo woelke

Set a password

passwd woelke

Set wsl default user and restart wsl in powershell via wsl --terminate archlinux

tee -a /etc/wsl.conf <<'EOF'

[user]
default=woelke
EOF

Setup Dotfiles

Setup ssh access to https://gitea.der-seb.space

ssh-keygen ...

tee -a /home/woelke/.ssh/config <<'EOF'
Host gitea.der-seb.space
     User git
     HostName gitea.der-seb.space
     IdentitiesOnly yes
     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitea-der-seb-space-access
EOF

Install woelke dotfiles

Knows Problems

Installation error: docker, docker-compose
- When Docker Desktop is installed on the host system, it might try to link its docker and docker-compose setup to the arch linux instance,
  - Disable wsl-integration in Docker Destkop Settings
  - Remove docker, docker-desktop symlinks

TODOs

move zsh to gitea

run and fix dotfiles install zsh scripts

faield: dotfiles install vim scripts 2 ----> "./install_plugins.sh",

write down in which order we should run the dotfiles scirpts yay, tools zsh vim ...

Install OhMyZsh <--- problem: git clone git@github.com:woelke/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

arch linux wsl docs

2.2 Open URLs in the WSL hosts browser
2.3 Run graphical applications with WSLg

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