Install .NET Core 3.1 in Ubuntu 22.04

1. Summary

From ubuntu 22.04 LTS, .NET Core 3.1 is not officially supported[1]. So you cannot install .NET Core 3.1 with convenient apt command.
Libplanet’s some features still needs .NET Core 3.1 so you would fail to build and run Libplanet or even NIne Chronicles.
In this article, I’ll introduce how to tweak this problem.

2. How to

2.1. Find .NET 6 SDK location

First, find the location of .NET SDK 6, the official supported version.

$ dotnet --list-sdks
6.0.400 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]  # The location would be different. Check your location

If you doesn’t have .NET SDK 6, install it first following MS Docs.

2.2. Downlaod .NET Core 3.1 SDK

Visit download page and download .NET Core 3.1 SDK in binary form for your system arch.

After download, extract it to any place to easy to access such as home directory.

2.3. Move .NET Core 3.1 to target location

The basic target location to put .NET Core 3.1 is that we’ve already found using dotnet --list-sdks. In my case, /usr/share/dotnet/sdk is it.
You can install(?) .NET Core 3.1 by just moving extracted files.

sudo mv ~/dontet-3.1.422 /usr/share/dontet/sdk/3.1.422  # The version would be diffrent. Use your version.

2.4. Test dotnet catches new SDK

Just re-run sdk list command

dotnet --list-sdks
3.1.422 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]
6.0.400 [/usr/share/dotnet/sdk]

That’s it!

3. Colnclusion

At this moment, Libplanet still uses old .NET Core 3.1 so you should do this tweak to build and run.
But .NET Core 3.1 support will be ended in this December[2], so we’re working on it. (GitHub Issue)


  1. Install .NET on Ubuntu - .NET | Microsoft Learn ↩︎

  2. .NET and .NET Core official support policy ↩︎