This post is an extract of the article “Installing Ubuntu 16.04 on a Raspberry Pi 3, installing .NET Core 2, and running a sample .NET Core 2 app” (here) written by Jeremy Lindsay.

He tested .NET Core 2 on Raspberry Pi 3. I tested the framework on ODROID-HC1.

.NET Core 2 Installation

# Update Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get -y update

# Install the packages necessary for .NET Core
sudo apt-get -y install libunwind8 libunwind8-dev gettext libicu-dev liblttng-ust-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev uuid-dev

# Download the latest binaries for .NET Core 2
wget https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/Runtime/release/2.0.0/dotnet-runtime-latest-linux-arm.tar.gz

# Make a directory for .NET Core to live in
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/dotnet

# Unzip the binaries into the directory we just created
sudo tar -xvf dotnet-runtime-latest-linux-arm.tar.gz -C /usr/local/lib/dotnet

# Now add the path to the dotnet executable to the environment path
# This ensures the next time you log in, the dotnet exe is on your path
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/usr/local/lib/dotnet" >> dotnetcore.sh
sudo mv dotnetcore.sh /etc/profile.d

Then run the command below to  add the path to the dotnet executable to the current session

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/lib/dotnet

Test the .NET Core 2 installation

You can now test the framework.

dotnet --info

You should see the following information.