Rootfs archive for debian:sid saved to rootfs_debian_.įor presentation purposes, the following images and tags are available as of August 18th:

Fetching Dockerfile from repo tianon/docker-brew-debian/./sid. Fetching official-images info for debian:sid. If you don't specify a tag, latest will be used, which is generally the stable edition of the distribution. For example, to get the rootfs tarball for Debian Sid, just run get-source.py debian:sid. The first argument of the script is the name of the image, optionally followed by a colon and the desired tag: get-source.py image. This script can download the tarballs for the official images in Docker Hub. To begin, clone the repository or download a copy of it. Since WSL is stored in %LocalAppData% for each user, you don't need admin rights in order to use any of the scripts. You can download a Python 3 installer from their official website, or you can use the one bundled with Cygwin.

The scripts provided here are written in Python 3, and they need to be run from Windows, NOT from WSL. This readme only contains usage information and some troubleshooting.

If you want to read about some of the challenges I faced while implementing the scripts, you can check out this blog post. The rootfs archives are currently downloaded from Docker Hub's official images' repositories ('source') or published image layers ('prebuilt'). The purpose of this project is to let you easily download and install new Linux distributions under Windows Subsystem for Linux and seamlessly switch between them. Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Switcher

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