There is no distribution with the supplied name and invalid repo error

[VPraharsha03]

Windows 10 22H2 19045.3393

Due to some reason my old installation of scoop from 2024 got corrupt with empty scoop.cmd and scoop.ps1, so I tried uninstalling it but it was incompletely removed with multiple access denied to path errors like

WARN  Couldn't remove ~\scoop\apps\fastfetch: Cannot remove item ~\scoop\apps\fastfetch\current: Access to the path '~\scoop\apps\fastfetch\current' is denied..Exception

so had to remove it manually, and thought of installing the latest version of scoop, but

-> irm get.scoop.sh | iex -Verbose
Initializing...
Downloading...
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Followed by a statement telling shim for install.ps1 couldn't be created

So I tried manually doing the installation, by running these commands

New-Item -Type Directory "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current" -Force
New-Item -Type Directory "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main" -Force
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/archive/master.zip" -OutFile "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current\scoop.zip"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/archive/master.zip" -OutFile "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main\main.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current\scoop.zip" -DestinationPath "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current\_tmp"
Expand-Archive -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main\main.zip" -DestinationPath "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main\_tmp"
Copy-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current\_tmp\scoop-*\*" "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\apps\scoop\current" -Recurse -Force
Copy-Item "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main\_tmp\Main-*\*" "$env:USERPROFILE\scoop\buckets\main" -Recurse -Force

and finally irm get.scoop.sh | iex -Verbose succeeded with

Initializing...
Downloading...
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Creating shim...
Scoop was installed successfully!
Type 'scoop help' for instructions.

but the same error "There is no distribution with the supplied name" persists with other commands as well

scoop bucket add extras https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras.git
Checking repo... ERROR 'https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Extras.git' doesn't look like a valid git repository

Error given:
There is no distribution with the supplied name.

and

scoop update
Updating Scoop...
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Remove-Item: ~\scoop\apps\scoop\current\libexec\scoop-update.ps1:88
Line |
  88 |              Remove-Item $newdir -Force -Recurse
     |              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find path '~\scoop\apps\scoop\new' because it does not exist.
Scoop download failed. If this appears several times, try removing SCOOP_REPO by 'scoop config rm SCOOP_REPO'

what is the reason for this error and how can it be fixed ?

[VPraharsha03]

It turns out to be a git related issue

I just remembered that i'm using wslgit & WslInterop pwsh module which was making use of Ubuntu 20.04 distro's git. I'd uninstalled Ubuntu 20.04 and now changed to a later version, so setting the WSLGIT_DEFAULT_DIST to the new distro should fix this

I was able to add back the extras repo too