I am running Ubuntu 22.04 and trying to install .NET 7.0.5
I have tried multiple different methods of installing .NET 7, none of them seem to allow me to use the dotnet build or dotnet publish command.
It appears to be some kind of issue with Ubuntu not recognizing that my SDKs are installed.
dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-x64 --self-contained false
You must install or update .NET to run this application.
App: /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/7.0.302/dotnet.dll
Architecture: x64
Framework: 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '7.0.5' (x64)
.NET location: /usr/share/dotnet/
No frameworks were found.
I tried to show the dotnet version:
root@localhost:~# dotnet --version
The command could not be loaded, possibly because:
* You intended to execute a .NET application:
The application '--version' does not exist.
* You intended to execute a .NET SDK command:
No .NET SDKs were found.
Dotnet information:
root@localhost:~# dotnet --info
Host:
Version: 7.0.5
Architecture: x64
Commit: 8042d61b17
.NET SDKs installed:
No SDKs were found.
.NET runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.5 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.5 [/usr/lib/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Other architectures found:
None
Environment variables:
Not set
global.json file:
Not found
Where is dotnet according to my system?
root@localhost:~# whereis dotnet
dotnet: /usr/bin/dotnet /usr/lib/dotnet /etc/dotnet /usr/share/dotnet
/usr/share/man/man1/dotnet.1.gz
Could my PATH not be correctly set or something?
How would I fix this issue?
Thanks!
2
Answers
Look at the paths carefully in the error messages:
This says the SDK is supposed to be at
/usr/share/dotnet
.This says the runtimes are at
/usr/lib/dotnet/
, and the SDKs are not found.You have somehow installed some parts of .NET in /usr/share/dotnet and others in /usr/lib/dotnet. That’s not going to work, because .NET expects everything to be in a single location – either
/usr/lib/dotnet/
or/usr/share/dotnet
. Because parts are installed in different locations, .NET gets completely confused and gives you these misleading errors.I suspect this is because you installed the .NET packages from two different providers – the runtime is from the Ubuntu repository (and installs at /usr/lib/dotnet) while the SDK is from the Microsoft repository (and installs at /usr/share/dotnet).
To fix this, I would:
sudo apt remove 'dotnet*' 'aspnet*' 'netstandard*'
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list
sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-7.0
For more details, and some other solutions to this problem, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-package-mixup?pivots=os-linux-ubuntu#solutions
The SDK is installed at
/usr/share/dotnet/sdk
, but the commanddotnet
only recognizes the/usr/lib/dotnet/
path.So after moving all the contents to it correct place, everything work for me:
dotnet --list-sdks