.NET Core native prerequisites

This document outlines the dependencies needed to run .NET Core tools and applications.

For Operating System support, please refer to the roadmap document.

Windows dependencies

On Windows, the only dependency is the VC++ Redistributable. Depending on the version of Windows you are running on, the versions are changing.

.NET Core requires the VC++ Redistributable when running on Windows. It is installed for you by the .NET Core installer. You need to install the Visual C++ redistributable manually if you are installing .NET Core via the installer script (dotnet-install.ps1) or are attempting to run a self-contained .NET Core application.

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015

Windows 7 and 2008 only
- Please make sure that your Windows installation is up-to-date and includes hotfix KB2533623 installed through Windows Update.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu distributions require the following libraries installed:

libunwind8
libunwind8-dev
gettext
libicu-dev
liblttng-ust-dev
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libssl-dev
uuid-dev
unzip

CentOS

CentOS distributions require the following libraries installed:

deltarpm
epel-release
unzip
libunwind
gettext
libcurl-devel
openssl-devel
zlib
libicu-devel

OS X

OS X requires the following libraries and versions installed:

libssl version 1.0.1

Installing the dependencies

Please follow the recommended practices of each operating system in question. For Linux, we recommend using your package manager such as apt-get for Ubuntu and yum for CentOS. For OS X and upgrading the libssl, we recommend using Homebrew; if you do use it, do not forget the link phase you need to do at the end of install (brew link openssl --force).

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