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FreeBSD install error cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

See original GitHub issue

following the instructions here and doing a manual install.

I get the error “error cannot execute binary file: Exec format error”

This error would suggest that im trying to run a binary from a different platform when im not. downloaded dotnet-sdk-5.0.402-linux-x64.tar.gz and dotnet-sdk-5.0.208-linux-x64.tar.gz and tried to run both on my amd64 machine and got the same error.

[root@jt ~]# DOTNET_FILE=dotnet-sdk-5.0.208-linux-x64.tar.gz
[root@jt ~]# export DOTNET_ROOT=$(pwd)/dotnet
[root@jt ~]#
[root@jt ~]# mkdir -p "$DOTNET_ROOT" && tar zxf "$DOTNET_FILE" -C "$DOTNET_ROOT"
[root@jt ~]#
[root@jt ~]# export PATH=$PATH:$DOTNET_ROOT
[root@jt ~]# dotnet
ELF binary type "3" not known.
bash: /root/dotnet/dotnet: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[root@jt ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD jt 12.2-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p6 df578562304(HEAD) TRUENAS  amd64

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to run correctly on FreeBSD

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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seccommented, Nov 5, 2021

For FreeBSD please follow/read this https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537#issuecomment-938220757 😃

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wfurtcommented, Nov 5, 2021

Also you can install Linux emulation modules and avoid this particular error. But .NET did not work anyway last time I tried because of platform differences and some unsupported system calls @swannie-eire. FreeBSD is community supported at the moment so the link @sec provided is probably best option.