Install .NET on Linux

This article describes how .NET is available on various Linux distributions. .NET can be installed by a package manager, snap, or manually. .NET is also available as a container image.

Packages

Packages are available for the following Linux distributions:

• Azure Linux
• Debian
• openSUSE Leap
• SUSE Enterprise Linux

Packages are published in the Microsoft package repository at https://packages.microsoft.com/. Distributions are selected per the policy defined at dotnet/core #9556.

The following Linux distributions publish their own .NET packages:

• Alpine
• CentOS Stream
• Fedora
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Ubuntu

Snap

.NET SDK snap packages are provided by and maintained by Canonical. Snaps are a great alternative to the package manager built into your Linux distribution.

• Install .NET Runtime with Snap
• Install .NET SDK with Snap

Manual installation

You can install .NET manually in the following ways:

• Manual install
• Scripted install

You might need to install .NET dependencies if you install .NET manually.

Additional sources

.NET is also available from other sources. The packages and containers use a name similar to one of the following names:

• aspnet-runtime
• dotnet-runtime
• dotnet-sdk
• dotnet

Package managers

• https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/dotnet
• https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/dotnet-sdk
• https://ports.macports.org/port/dotnet-cli
• https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=dotnet
• https://archlinux.org
• https://aur.archlinux.org

Containers

• https://containers.dev/features
• https://images.chainguard.dev