Chapter 1. Availability

Red Hat provides a distribution of .NET that enables developers to create applications using the C#, Visual Basic, and F# languages and then deploy them on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, or other platforms. A no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscription is available, including a full suite of tools for container development.

  • For RHEL 8.7 and later and RHEL 9.1 and later, .NET 7.0 is available as the following RPMs in the AppStream repositories:

    dotnet-sdk-7.0
    Includes the .NET 7.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) and all the runtimes.
    aspnetcore-runtime-7.0
    The ASP .NET Core runtime. This includes the .NET runtime and the ASP .NET Core runtime. Install this package to run ASP .NET Core-based applications.
    dotnet-runtime-7.0
    Only the .NET 7.0 Runtime. Install this to just use the Runtime without the SDK.

The AppStream repositories are enabled by default in RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.

  • .NET 7.0 is available for aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, and x86_64 architectures on RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and OpenShift Container Platform.

    Full instructions for installing .NET 7.0 on RHEL 8 are available in the Getting started with .NET on RHEL 8 guide.

    Full instructions for installing .NET 7.0 on RHEL 9 are available in the Getting started with .NET on RHEL 9 guide.