Install .NET on Linux

• Install on Windows
• Install on macOS
• Install on Linux

This article describes how .NET is available on various Linux distributions. .NET can be installed by a package manager, snap, or manually. .NET is also available as a container image.

Packages

Starting with .NET 9 (currently in preview), Microsoft only publishes packages for supported Linux distributions that don't publish their own packages. Packages are published in the Microsoft package repository at https://packages.microsoft.com/. This includes the following Linux distributions:

• Azure Linux 3.0
• Debian
• openSUSE Leap
• SUSE Enterprise Linux

The following Linux distributions officially support .NET, and publish their own .NET packages:

• Azure Linux 2.0 (CBL-Mariner)
• Alpine
• CentOS Stream
• Fedora
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Ubuntu

Snap

.NET SDK snap packages are provided by and maintained by Canonical. Snaps are a great alternative to the package manager built into your Linux distribution.

• Install .NET Runtime with Snap
• Install .NET SDK with Snap

Manual installation

You can install .NET manually in the following ways:

• Manual install
• Scripted install

You may need to install .NET dependencies if you install .NET manually.