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, 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.