Installing .NET SDK on Ubuntu produces no executable dotnet file

V0ldek

4/19/23, 3:43 PM

Installing .NET SDK on Ubuntu 20.04 with the commands listed in the Install .NET on Ubuntu docs:

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt-get update; \
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

produces no dotnet executable.

Command 'dotnet' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk

Listing files from the package:

dpkg -L dotnet-sdk-6.0 | grep -P "dotnet$"

gives

/usr/share/dotnet

The /usr/share/dotnet directory contains no executable. I compared this result with my other Ubuntu installation where I installed dotnet ages ago, and there it is installed in /usr/share/dotnet but there exists a /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet executable.

What am I doing wrong? How to install dotnet on Ubuntu with APT?

Using snap is not an option.

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package-management

apt

dpkg

dotnet

waltinator

4/20/23, 2:12 AM

Don't prematurely discard diagnostic information. Look at the whole `dpkg -L` output. Can you `apt-cache search dotnet` and install via `apt`?

V0ldek

4/20/23, 7:51 AM

@waltinator `dpkg -L` gives a lot of files, all of in `/usr/share/dotnet`. None of them are executables.

V0ldek

4/20/23, 7:55 AM

@waltinator apt-cache search dotnet gives a bunch of packages in 4 different versions of .NET (2.1, 3.1, 5.0, 6.0). Installing dotnet-sdk-6.0 autoinstalls related packages in 6.0 version. For completion, the other autoinstalled packages are: dotnet-apphost-pack-6.0, dotnet-hostfxr-6.0, dotnet-runtime-6.0, dotnet-runtime-deps-6.0, dotnet-targeting-pack-6.0.

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