.NET Core 2.0 application published as deb file

Question

Is it possible to transform published .NET Core 2.0 application to .deb file? I published my app by dotnet publish -c Release -r ubuntu.16.04-x64. Now, my goal is

Answer 1

If you want to create .deb packages for your .NET Core applications, you can use dotnet-deb.

To install dotnet-deb, add the following references to your .csproj file:

<ItemGroup> <PackageReference Include="Packaging.Targets" Version="0.1.1-*" /> <DotNetCliToolReference Include="dotnet-deb" Version="0.1.1-*" /> <ItemGroup>

Then, run dotnet restore and dotnet publish -c Release -f netcoreapp2.0 -r ubuntu.16.04-x64. This will generate a Debian installer package for you.

I'm the maintainer for the dotnet-deb, feel free to ask follow up questions or head over to https://github.com/qmfrederik/dotnet-packaging if you have questions.

Answer 2

Looks like you want https://github.com/qmfrederik/dotnet-packaging! It provides commands like dotnet deb to package up your project into a deb/rpm/tar for Linux.