This repository contains command-line extensions for the .NET Core CLI which make it easy to create
deployment packages (such as .zip
files, tarballs or installers) for .NET Core applications.
The following commands are already available:
dotnet tarball
- Create a.tar.gz
file for Linux and OS Xdotnet rpm
- Create a CentOS/RedHat Linux installerdotnet zip
- Create a.zip
filedotnet deb
- Create a Ubuntu/Debian Linux installer
And these are up next:
dotnet pkg
- Create a macOS installerdotnet choco
- Create a Chocolatey packagedotnet msi
- Create a Windows Installer (msi) package
Did we miss anything? Feel free to file a feature request, or send a PR!
First, install the .NET Packaging tools. You don't need to install all tools if you only plan to use one.
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-zip
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-tarball
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-rpm
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-deb
Then, in your project directory, run dotnet {zip|tarball|rpm|deb} install
to add the tool to your project:
dotnet zip install
dotnet tarball install
dotnet rpm install
dotnet deb install
From the command line, run dotnet rpm
, dotnet zip
or dotnet tarball
to create a .rpm
, .zip
or .tar.gz
archive of the published output of your project.
All commands take the following command line arguments:
-r
,--runtime
: The target runtime to build your project for. For example,win7-x64
orubuntu.16.10-x64
.-f
,--framework
: The target framework to build your project for. For example,netcoreapp1.1
ornet462
.-c
,--configuration
: Target configuration. The default for most projects is 'Debug'.-o
,--output
: The output directory to place built packages in.--version-suffix
: Defines the value for the$(VersionSuffix)
property in the project.--no-restore
: Skip the implicit call todotnet restore
.
All arguments are optional.
Let's create a new console application and package it as a .deb
file, so we can install it on our Ubuntu machine:
First, create your console application:
mkdir my-app
cd my-app
dotnet new console
Then, install the dotnet-deb utility:
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-deb
dotnet deb install
All set. Let's package your application as a deb package:
dotnet deb
There's now a bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.0\my-app.1.0.0.deb
file wich you can install:
apt-get install bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.0\my-app.1.0.0.deb
Your application is installed into /usr/local/share/my-app
. Invoke it by running /usr/local/share/my-app/my-app
:
/usr/local/share/my-app/my-app
You can invoke the packaging tools manually, using a MSBuild target instead of using the a .NET Core CLI tool:
dotnet msbuild [your-project].csproj /t:CreateZip /p:TargetFramework=netcoreapp1.1 /p:RuntimeIdentifier=win7-x64 /p:Configuration=Release