Installing .Net on Ubuntu... on Windows

September 06, 2020

With the new Windows Subsystem for Linux, and the Windows Terminal, comes the ability to run .Net programs on Linux from your Windows machine.

Here I wrote briefly about how you can install and run Linux on your Windows machine. In this post, I’ll cover how to install .Net.

If you don’t have the Windows Terminal, then you can install it here.

The installation process is pretty straightforward, and the first step is to launch the Windows Terminal. Once that’s running, open a Linux tab, and run the following two scripts (if you’re interested in where these came from, follow the link in the References section below):



wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Then run:



sudo apt-get update; \\
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \\
  sudo apt-get update && \\
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-3.1

That should do it. To verify that it has:



dotnet --version

And you should see:

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu