Wsl: Manual installation instructions are circular

[mattgif]

The "Installing your distro" section from this (the manual download page) links to instructions to install via the Windows store. That page links back to this one for manual install instructions.

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• ID: 7194d104-51d3-f53e-cb6c-2242affb7a22
• Version Independent ID: 3fd655c2-9bb3-67d7-c369-545f38f805d8
• Content: Manually download Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Distros
• Content Source: WSL/install-manual.md
• Product: windows-subsystem-for-linux
• GitHub Login: @taraj
• Microsoft Alias: taraj

[james3126]

I think it's meant to guide you here. Not very clear though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server

[jdotb]

Add-AppxPackage .\Ubuntu.appx

[jdotb]

Then run ubuntu1804.exe (or ubuntu1604.exe or ubuntux.xx.exe)

[elliot12]

I figured it out after about an hour, much easier way to install the distro of your choice.

1. Make sure you have the Linux Subsystem Feature installed and enabled
2. Download the distro appx of your choosing
3. Rename the file with extension .zip
4. Unzip file
5. Run exe file as admin (in my case I was using Debian so it was debian.exe)
6. Boom done

[venkatasreekanth]

Thank you @elliot12

[craigloewen-msft]

These are no longer circular, and have now been fixed! Thank you for filing this.