Custom WSL Ubuntu 22.04 distribution

Introduction

Installing a Linux distro in WSL is easier than ever!

This is the custom Ubuntu 22.04 WSL distribution with some s/w being preinstalled.

Prerequisites: WSL installed on your host machine.

Install Linux on Windows with WSL, docs

Installation 

After downloading the image: ubuntu-2204-edu-pyroot.tar

The command to import a WSL Linux distro image into WSL is as follows: 

wsl --import [Image Name you choose] [Directory to store and run the image] [Location of the exported .tar file]

e.g.

wsl --import Ubuntu-22.04-Edu C:\WSL\Ubuntu2204 C:\WSL\ubuntu-2204-edu-pyroot.tar

NOTE: Directory to store and run the image is being reserved exclusively per single distribution instance.

Default user:

• Username: stud 
• Password (sudo) stud

Preinstalled s/w

this is done via conda environment: py-root-6.28.0

• Python 3.11.3
• ROOT 6.28.0, docs
• MPLHEP 0.3.28, docs 
• Pandas 2.0.1
• Seaborn 0.12.2
• Jupyter for Colab, docs

Run jupyter server for Colab

Google Colab: An Online Jupyter Notebook That You Should Definitely Try

Simply, run the script located in the home directory:

./run_jupyter_colab.sh