this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
33 points (94.6% liked)
Programming
22314 readers
14 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Depending on your distro, you may have the .NET SDK in your packages already. Debian doesn't have it. I'm not sure about Mint. I use Ubuntu MATE and .NET 8 is available. Check with this:
apt search dotnet-sdk
If you see something like dotnet-sdk-8.0 in the list, this will install everything you need:
sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0
If it's not available in the package repo, it's not difficult to install manually. Follow the instructions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website#manual-installation
For my development environment, I use VS Code with the following extensions:
Once you've installed the SDK along with VS Code and the associated extensions, getting started is as easy as:
Clarification for Debian!
I recently installed on Debian 13 as well and these are the instructions I followed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian?tabs=dotnet8
The instructions say Debian 12, but they do work on Debian 13, FWIW.