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AmirRazoR
Asked: 2012-12-29 06:00:41 +0800 CST

Can I write programs in C# on Ubuntu?

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I am forced to learn and practice C#, is there any applications that support and can be used to write programs in C#?

application-development

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  1. Best Answer

    Yes you can use mono

    For a nice IDE to work in try monodevelop:

    sudo apt-get install monodevelop

    This will also pull in all the necessary runtimes needed.

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  2. What you are looking for is Mono, which is, quoting from the project's website:

    An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET

    Mono also comes with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE): MonoDevelop. Both softwares are packaged for Ubuntu.

    Mono

    Install via the software center

    MonoDevelop

    Install via the software center

    This last package depends on the first one. Installing this package will automatically install the other.

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  3. You can develop C# applications on linux with .NET Core: https://www.microsoft.com/net/core

    After you install it, type dotnet new in your terminal to get a list of application templates which can be generated for you to start.

    As of .NET Core 2.0 today, this is the list:

    Templates                                         Short Name       Language          Tags               
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Console Application                               console          [C#], F#, VB      Common/Console     
Class library                                     classlib         [C#], F#, VB      Common/Library     
Unit Test Project                                 mstest           [C#], F#, VB      Test/MSTest        
xUnit Test Project                                xunit            [C#], F#, VB      Test/xUnit         
ASP.NET Core Empty                                web              [C#], F#          Web/Empty          
ASP.NET Core Web App (Model-View-Controller)      mvc              [C#], F#          Web/MVC            
ASP.NET Core Web App                              razor            [C#]              Web/MVC/Razor Pages
ASP.NET Core with Angular                         angular          [C#]              Web/MVC/SPA        
ASP.NET Core with React.js                        react            [C#]              Web/MVC/SPA        
ASP.NET Core with React.js and Redux              reactredux       [C#]              Web/MVC/SPA        
ASP.NET Core Web API                              webapi           [C#], F#          Web/WebAPI         
global.json file                                  globaljson                         Config             
Nuget Config                                      nugetconfig                        Config             
Web Config                                        webconfig                          Config             
Solution File                                     sln                                Solution           
Razor Page                                        page                               Web/ASP.NET        
MVC ViewImports                                   viewimports                        Web/ASP.NET        
MVC ViewStart                                     viewstart                          Web/ASP.NET

    The current latest version is 2.0 and covers all my needs.

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  4. You could use Visual Studio Code using apt:

    wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

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    or snap:

    sudo snap install code --classic

    After the C# package installing, the next dialog box appears:

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    Clicking the marked button opens the next page, which provides the instructions for .Net Core SDK installation (along with ASP.Net Core runtime and .Net Core runtime installation instructions):

    wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/19.10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt install ./packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-3.1

    monodevelop IDE seems is not an option now, because of I could not find it. But if you want to install the current mono version (For example, on 20.04, amd64 architecture) you could use official mono repository:

    sudo apt install gnupg ca-certificates
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mono-devel

    You could also install additional mono packages, which you could find by:

    apt-cache search mono

    The man mono will introduce you to its usage:

    DESCRIPTION
       mono is a runtime implementation of the ECMA Common  Lan‐
       guage  Infrastructure.   This can be used to run ECMA and
       .NET applications.
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