How do I install Dot Net Core on Arch Linux

Question

I am using Apricity OS (based on Arch Linux). I want to install Dot Net Core. What is the command for installing it by pacman.

Solution 1

In order to install dotnet-cli, you could use yaourt that helps to build and install AUR packages.

You can proceed like this :

• Add to /etc/pacman.conf

  [archlinuxfr]  
  SigLevel = Never  
  Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
  

• Update pacman and install yaourt:

  sudo pacman -Sy yaourt
  

• Next install dotnet-cli using:

  yaourt dotnet-cli
  

And follow the instruction of yaourt.

Solution 2

There are several packages pertaining to DotNetCore in the Archlinux User Repository (AUR). As noted in the answer by mpromonet, one of those is dotnet-cli. However, there is no need to install yaourt (or any other AUR helper) to install packages from AUR.

I know this will probably be too late for the OP, but for the sake of completeness, theses are the steps to install a package that is only in the AUR in Archlinux (or its derivates) without additional tools:

1) Make sure you have the base-devel group installed
2) Go to the website https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ and search the package
3) On the page for that package, klick "Download snapshot" and save the package to your computer
4) Extract the package on your computer: tar xvf <package_name>.tar.gz
5) cd <package_name>
6) makepkg
7) If the build fails, saying that a dependency is not satisfied, download and install that dependency first: try pacman -S <dependency> or else follow these steps
8) When the build succeeded, install the package:
   sudo pacman -U <pkgname>-<version_number>.tar.xz

See also the AUR entry in the Archlinux wiki for a more in-depth description of the AUR.

Solution 3

The packages for .NET Core are now available from the official Community repository.

If you only want to run .NET Core applications, you will need the dotnet-runtime package.

pacman -S dotnet-runtime

In case you also want to build .NET Core applications yourself, you need the dotnet-sdk package.

pacman -S dotnet-sdk

Comments

[jasonwryan]

You learn how to use the AUR...

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@jasonwryan If you know the exact way can you please tell me how to do it? I would still need to learn using AUR.

[jasonwryan]

I linked to a wiki page that describes the exact way to do it.

[jasonwryan]

The archlinux.fr is a terrible idea; OP needs to actually understand what they are doing. Recommending a broken repo and an insecure package manager (yaourt) is doing them no favours.

[jasonwryan]

Read the comparison table on the wiki (hint: if it is all red, it is bad)...