Please add PPA for Ubuntu 18.04

[murbanowicz]

Hi,
Is it possible to add PPA for Ubuntu 18.04 to let us install dotnet core sdk/runtime using apt-get ?

[richlander]

We're work on it. @leecow is working to make it happen. Totally agree!

[leecow]

Hey @murbanowicz - working with the team that manages packages.microsoft.com and hope to have an 18.04 feed up in the next few weeks.

[murbanowicz]

@leecow Any updated on that?

[Petermarcu]

@leecow , anything I can do to help on this one?

[leecow]

18.04 PPA is up. The next 2.1 Preview will be pushed there as well as an upcoming 2.0 update as soon as 18.04 support is added.

[Petermarcu]

Great. Should we upload Preview1 to it?

[leecow]

18.04 support was added to Master so I don't believe we have Preview 1 builds that would work. Certainly the tarball could be used along with a daily build of the dependency installer (or manually install them)

[Petermarcu]

Ok, @leecow do you need this issue open to track it happening or can we close it?

[damageboy]

OK... since 18.04 is two days away... is there an ETA on when the official non preview will be published for 18.04?

I'd be very happy to put my hands on dotnet-sdk-2.1.105... :)

[damageboy]

I just saw that dotnet-sdk-2.1.105 in the last few minutes...!:

$ lsb_release -d
Description:	Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
$ dotnet --version
2.1.105

[leecow]

Nice discovery! Still need to update the install references but it's good to go and you should find The April Update (2.0.7 with 2.1.105 SDK) and 2.1 Preview 2

The following will get you set up:

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.asc.gpg
mv microsoft.asc.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/prod.list
mv prod.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list