Installing .NET on steam deck

Question

Trying to install .net onto a steam deck to run some older games in my library.

When trying to patch the game, the file is stating that the .net needed to patch the files is '.net 7.0.0', which is not available.

However I already have 8.0.1 and this should not be an issue.

Please help me to install the required .net patch to update these files onto a steam deck

Answer 1

Hi Alfie Chatfield,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q & A forum. 

Although you have .NET 8.0.1 installed, some applications require the specific version they were built with in this case, .NET 7.0.0. 

To install .NET 7.0.0 on your Steam Deck: 

1.Switch to Desktop Mode. 

2.Open Konsole and run the following commands: 

wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh
chmod +x dotnet-install.sh
./dotnet-install.sh --version 7.0.0

3.Add the following lines to your .bashrc or terminal profile: 

export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/.dotnet
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.dotnet

 4.Apply changes with source ~/.bashrc, then verify with: 

dotnet --list-runtimes

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