How to install DotNet 8 on Amazon Linux 2023

Hey everyone!

Hope you are safe and doing great!

For some reason AWS:

Has broken DotNet packages (they are missed files within this directory /usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/*)
Does not have DotNet 8 packages

So, the best practice here is to get DotNet packages from the official Microsoft repos: https://packages.microsoft.com/

In this short guide, we will go through the setup, using an Amazon Linux 2023 instance, and will install DotNet 8 on it.

1 - ssh to your EC2 Amazon Linux 2023 instance

ssh ec2-user@IPAdress

2 - Add the Microsoft repo for Fedora 39

sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/packages-microsoft-com-prod.repo https://packages.microsoft.com/config/fedora/39/prod.repo

3 - Install DotNet 8 from the Microsoft repo

sudo dnf --disablerepo=amazonlinux install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0

4 - Check the installation

dnf list installed | grep dot
dotnet --version

You are awesome! 👍

That is it. Hope this short guide helped you and saved your time for the best.

Thank you for reading and see you soon.