no lxss

[guai]

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.254]

I already have ubuntu wsl installed from the store and it works. I wanted to install centos also.

D:\WSL-Distribution-Switcher-master>install.py centos:latest
[*] Probing the Linux subsystem...
[!] The Linux subsystem is not installed. Please go through the standard installation procedure first.

ALAICS, the check looks like this os.path.join(os.getenv('LocalAppData'), 'lxss') and there actually no lxss dir in %LocalAppData%

[melak47]

Windows now supports multiple distributions natively.
The downside is that this project doesn't work out of the box anymore.
You need to create a launcher for your custom distro: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher

You can still use the scripts from this repo to get a tarball of the distro you want, and use that as install.tar.gz for the WSL-DistroLauncher you're creating.

[benzBrake]

you can try this fixed version: https://github.com/benzBrake/WSL-Distribution-Switcher

[sarawgeek]

if you are trying to install package like Kali, then this switcher is hardcoded to look for debian package only, so you can go and change
->go to %LocalAppData% in Run window
-> Copy the folder name of your package, in my case it was "KaliLinux.54290C8133FEE_ey8k8hqnwqnmg"
-> go inside WSL-Distribution-Switcher folder and open utils.py
-> go to function probe_wsl(silent=false)
-> change the packagesSubFolder
Now try.
you might get some debian.exe related error, in that case, do this after above steps
-> go to install.py
-> find this call -> get_lxss_user()
-> remove this call and assign values like this
uid=0
gid=0
user='root'