With the release of .Net 8, I rapidly decided to install it on my VPS running Ubuntu 22.04. We had so many new features and improvements announced that I just had to try it!
Unfortunately, I was not able to install it using the package manager. These are the steps that I've taken to have .Net 8 installed on my machine...
First I checked on the Ubuntu Package Search page just to make sure that .Net 8 was not there.
Ok. Now we are positive that jammys' repository only have packages for .Net 6 and 7.
So I basically followed the instructions on this Microsoft Learn page.
- Register the Microsoft package repository
# Get Ubuntu version
declare repo_version=$(if command -v lsb_release &> /dev/null; then lsb_release -r -s; else grep -oP '(?<=^VERSION_ID=).+' /etc/os-release | tr -d '"'; fi)
# Download Microsoft signing key and repository
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$repo_version/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
# Install Microsoft signing key and repository
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
# Clean up
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
# Update packages
sudo apt update
- Install .Net 8 package
sudo apt update
sudo apt install aspnetcore-runtime-8.0
Notice that I won't be doing any development on my VPS so I just needed the runtime.
If you are planning to actually develop some code in your machine, you'll have to use:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0
To finish it up, make sure to check the installation:
dotnet --info
