Install .NET on Linux

• Install on Windows
• Install on macOS
• Install on Linux

This article details how to install .NET on various Linux distributions, manually and via a package manager. Typically, stable .NET versions are available in a package manager, and Preview versions are not.

Manual installation

You can install .NET manually in the following ways:

• Download tarballs
• Scripted install
• Manual binary extraction

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

Official package archives

.NET is available in the official package archives for various Linux distributions, including the following ones.

• Arch Linux
• Arch Linux User Repository
• Fedora
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

.NET may or may not be supported by Microsoft as published in the official package archives. You can still open issues at dotnet/core if you run into problems.

Red Hat supports .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat and Microsoft collaborate to ensure that .NET works well on RHEL.

Microsoft packages

.NET is also available via packages.microsoft.com.

• CentOS
• Debian
• Fedora
• openSUSE
• SLES
• Ubuntu

These packages are supported by Microsoft.

You're encouraged to install .NET from the official archive for your distribution if it's available there, even if it's also available at packages.microsoft.com.

Other distributions

Installation information is also provided for other distributions.

• Alpine
• Containers
• Snap

Next steps

• How to check if .NET is already installed.
• Tutorial: Create a new app with Visual Studio Code.
• Tutorial: Containerize a .NET app.