Once you have dotnet SDK installed, you can create your first program.
To create a console project run
dotnet new console -o MyApp
This will create MyApp folder with 2 files inside. Program.cs is a basic program that prints “Hello World” text in the console.
To run the dotnet project, you can use the command
dotnet run
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Microsoft .NET SDK and Run time now available for Linux. To install .NET SDK and runtime on Ubuntu 20.04, follow the instructions below
Run the following commands as user root. If you are logged in as a normal user, use the command “sudo su” to become user root.
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
Update the repo and install apt-transport-https
apt-get update apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
Search for available dotnet-sdk versions
apt-cache search dotnet-sdk
On Ubuntu 20.04, Microsoft provides .NET SDK version 2.1, 3.1, and 5. Let’s install version 5.
apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-5.0
To find the version of .NET SDK, run
dotnet --version
You can find .NET SDK and runtime available with commands
dotnet --list-sdks dotnet --list-runtimes