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Kali WSL Setup

1. To Choose Distribution name from Available ones

wsl --list --online

(-o / --online, -l / --list)

2. Installing From The Web and not Launching it directly

wsl --install --web-download --no-launch kali-Linux

(-n / --no-launch)

3. Setting Kali to Default Distro

wsl --set-default kali-Linux

4. Setting kali to WSL version 2

wsl --set-version kali-linux 2

(-s / --set-version)

5. TO make wsl 2 Default Version

wsl --set-default-version 2

Some WSL commands

wsl --help (TO get all The commands)
wsl --terminate kali-linux (To ShutDown Kali)
wsl --unregister kali-linux (To Uninstall Kali)
wsl --shutdown (To ShutDown WSL and All distros)
wsl --distribution kali-linux --user root (To login in kali as root)

(-d / --distrubution, -u / --user)

6. Logging in

kali

(Kali uses kali as a shortcut to login with the default login)

7. Init Steps

touch ~/.hushlogin
sudo su
passwd
apt update && apt upgrade
apt install -y kali-win-kex
apt install kali-tweaks
kali-tweaks

(Installing top tools, zsh and others)

8. Change The Shell to Zsh if it didn't already for default User

cat /etc/shells
which zsh
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

Logout and Login and Check

echo $SHELL 
which $SHELL

9. Installing Oh-My-Zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
mv ~/.oh-my-zsh /usr/share/ohmyzsh

empty existing .zshrc (echo '' > ~/.zshrc) as we will use /etc/zsh/zshrc as global

Some OMZ Commands

omz help (for help msg)
omz reload (reloads oh my zsh)
omz update (updates omz)
omz plugin <command> (Manage plugins)
omz theme  <command> (Manage themes)

10. Using Kex

kex -s (to start Win-Kex in window mode with sound)
kex --ems -s (to start Win-Kex in RDP Mode with sound)
kex --sl -s (to start Win-Kex in Seamless Mode with sound)
kex status (to see kex's status)
kex <Mode> --stop (to stop that mode)
kex kill (to stop kex all together)

Extra

Symlinks to auto setup all our configs from Documents so it's easier to edit to config from windows

// ln -s link target (soft link where target will be linked to link) 

// For wsl.conf

ln -s /mnt/c/Users/thesr/Documents/dotfiles/Kali_WSL/etc/wsl.conf /etc/wsl.conf

// For zshrc for oh-my-zsh

ln -s /mnt/c/Users/thesr/Documents/dotfiles/Kali_WSL/etc/zsh/zshrc /etc/zsh/zshrc

omz update issue (.git not found)

you need to install ohmyzsh as git repo if you face this issue

cd /usr/share
mv ohmyzsh ohmyzsh-backup
git clone https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh.git ohmyzsh
mv ohmyzsh-backup ohmyzsh
omz update