001-Getting-Started

#Getting Started with C# on Linux This file is part of a multi-series workshop on learning C# on Linux available here.

Author: Martin Woodward

First of all we want to get .NET Core installed on your environment. For instructions see http://dotnet.github.io/getting-started/ and follow the instructions for the platform of your choice.

Getting started on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS

At the time of writing, the RPM packages for .NET Core are not publicly available. Therefore to install with yum please do the following:

1. Install the dependencies:

 sudo yum install –y libicu libuuid libcurl openssl libunwind

1. Download this alpha build (which is known good at the time of writing):

 wget https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/beta/Binaries/1.0.0.001088/dotnet-centos-x64.1.0.0.001088.tar.gz

1. Unpack the build somewhere (e.g. /opt/dotnet)

 sudo mkdir /opt/dotnet
 sudo tar xf dotnet-centos-x64.1.0.0.001088.tar.gz -C /opt/dotnet

1. Add /opt/dotnet/bin to your PATH and set DOTNET_HOME to /opt/dotnet. One way to do this is by adding the following to your .bashrc file.

 export PATH=$PATH:/opt/dotnet/bin
 export DOTNET_HOME=/opt/dotnet

Getting started on Ubuntu & Debian based distributions

See http://dotnet.github.io/getting-started/ for the latest instructions, but essentially:

1. Add the dotnet apt-get feed

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
sudo apt-get update

1. Install .NET Core

sudo apt-get install dotnet-nightly

Conclusion

That's it - you should have dotnet installed on your system. You should be able to type dotnet --version to verify. Next, lets create a new application and learn about the structure of a C# program.

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