Installing with `apt install dotnet-sdk-6.0` yields no executable file on Ubuntu 20.04

Installing .NET SDK on Ubuntu 20.04 with the commands listed in the Install .NET on Ubuntu docs:

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
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt-get update; \
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0

produces no dotnet executable.

Command 'dotnet' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk

Listing files from the package:

dpkg -L dotnet-sdk-6.0 | grep -P "dotnet$"

gives

/usr/share/dotnet

The /usr/share/dotnet directory contains no executable. I compared this result with my other Ubuntu installation where I installed dotnet ages ago, and there it is installed in /usr/share/dotnet but there exists a /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet executable. It’s as if the current download via apt didn’t include any executables.

What am I doing wrong? How to install dotnet on Ubuntu with APT?

Using snap is not an option.

[V0ldek]

That’s a good catch. dotnet-host is indeed installed in apt even though it doesn’t exist in /usr/share/dotnet. I did not run rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet, so I’m guessing something corrupted my /usr/share at some point, causing this issue. It’s kind of ridiculous that it happened on four different Ubuntus in exactly the same way, but I guess I always tried to keep them synchronised.

sudo apt reinstall dotnet-host and then sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-6.0 fixes the issue. Many thanks.

[dagood]

@Moawyah-AbdulRahman, you’ve found an old, closed issue, which aren’t typically monitored for new comments. You should take a look at this, instead, since it appears you’re on Ubuntu 22.04:

• https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/7699