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.NET on Elementary OS

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Install dotnet package following this tutorial in Elementary OS environment, then try running dotnet restore

Expected behavior

Downloading every dependency.

Actual behavior

List of errors like: <library> provides a compile-time reference assembly for <library> on DNXCore,Version=v5.0, but there is no run-time assembly compatible with elementary os.0.3.2-x64

Environment data

dotnet --version output: .NET Command Line Tools (1.0.0-beta-001634)

Product Information: Version: 1.0.0-beta-001634 Commit Sha: N/A

I changed the /etc/os-release string to match the Ubuntu one. Anyway, Elementary OS i Ubuntu 14.04 based, why isn’t it accepted by dotnet then?

Issue Analytics

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:12 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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dlechcommented, Mar 21, 2016

Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu 14.04. It just has a different desktop and core desktop apps. Anything that dotnet deals with is going to be identical to Ubuntu 14.04 other than /etc/os-release. So really the bug here is not that elementary OS doesn’t work, but rather that dotnet is using /etc/os-release to determine which packages to download.

It seems to me that if you install dotnet from a ppa, then when you run dotnet restore it should download nuget packages that are compatible with the dotnet version that was installed and not be looking at something outside of the dotnet package to determine which nuget packages are compatible.

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blackdwarfcommented, Mar 7, 2016

@poculeka though Elementary OS could be derived from Ubuntu, we don’t really test out CLI on anything but CentOS and Ubuntu for now.