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IMPORTANT INSTALLATION INFO (a reminder for myself as well):

For dotnet to work you need to EXPLICITLY install:

• ONE dotnet-host - highest version possible
• ANY NUMBER of dotnet-runtimes (and its sdks after if you want to build as well - Right now version 'bin', '3.1', '3.0', '2.2' and '2.1' are tested to work together)

If you keep the install order in mind and you don't rely on pacman to resolve your dependencies you will be fine.

Longer explanation:

Every dotnet-sdk is dependent on a specific version of dotnet-runtime, this is built into dotnet.

Technically you only need the latest dotnet-sdk because it can build to any earlier versions.

The latest version at the time of this comment 6.0.100 breaks Microsoft.Data.SqlClient with the error Strings.PlatformNotSupported_DataSqlClient. Removing this package and using the dotnet-install.sh script to use version 6.0.101 fixes things. As @sarvasana - it would be nice to make this more dynamic by using the official script. But I have zero experience with AUR packaging, and therefore don't know how that would play with versioning requirements.

See https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/issues/1427

Would it not be easier for all dotnet packages in AUR to make use of dotnet-install scripts provided by Microsoft?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script

curl -sSL https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh | sudo bash /dev/stdin -c LTS --install-dir /usr/share/dotnet

sudo ln -sf /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/bin/dotnet

You can use that script to install LTS, Current or specific versions such as 3.1.

Honest question.

@Sejsel You are right, thank you for the fix. Pushed an update

To get this package to work properly after the .NET 6 update, I had to edit the PKGBUILD to also copy sdk-manifests in package_dotnet-sdk-bin(). The fixed version is cp -dr --no-preserve='ownership' sdk sdk-manifests templates "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/dotnet/. Without this directory, msbuild throws exceptions complaining about those missing files.

Cool, thanks! And thanks for maintaining this!

@amos fixed, now it can be used with the packages in the community repo

@Gr3q Installing both the repository packages and these packages is sometimes necessary. For building .net 5 binaries I'm using these packages. However if I want to be able to build .net core 3 binaries they are not enough, I have to have the donjet-sdk-3.1 package from the repos, otherwise I get The framework 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '3.1.0' was not found.

Is there a reason not to provide (and conflict) netstandard-targeting-pack? This package does indeed provide that.

Regardless, as mentioned before: conflicting and providing netstandard-targeting-pack-bin is redundant, this is already the name of this package.

I'm kinda new to this so I might be confused, but it looks like PKGBUILD says that aspnet-runtime-bin, dotnet-runtime-bin, and dotnet-sdk-bin are in conflict with themselves.

@servime try install dotnet-host-bin, dotnet-runtime-bin and dotnet-sdk-bin all at once if your AUR manager doesn't handle split packages. use just use makepkg -si after you cloned this repo.

@satcom886 .NET is .NET Core, it was simple renamed after 3.1.

@Gr3q Yes, let's add dotNET on Windows too, this is not confusing at all. Ok, so from what I understand:

dotNET Framework - Windows-only libraries and tools for running and developing dotNET programs.
dotNET - Pretty much the same thing, but cross-platform, also without a native ability to create GUIs on Linux (at least until MAUI gets released in v6)
dotNET Core - LTS version of the normal dotNET?