Linux

You can develop, build, and run enterprise .NET applications on Linux. Here is a little info to help you get started.

I’m glad that FoxIt PDF reader is available for Linux, but I was disappointed that the Typewriter tool doesn’t have a black color option, here is a way to change it manually.

Getting Confluent Kafka working in Linux is not as easy as in Windows, but it can be done.

Simple instructions for updating Docker Desktop on Ubuntu.

An underscore right after the substitution variable in a bash for loop can cause problems, this post shows how to fix it.

For years I’ve been manually installing the .NET SDK on Linux. There is no automated way to remove them, but deleting everything and starting clean is very easy.

While trying to use Rider on Linux, I hit these errors “load failed”, “MSBuild is required to load project ‘HelloLinux’ but it was not found”, and “MSBuild (Microsoft Build Engine) is required to load and build project ‘HelloLinux’”. If you got any of these, read on to find out how to fix them.

Sometimes I accidentally “Disconnect” from a debug session instead of “Stopping” it. When this happens you leave behind a running process, holding on to files and preventing your starting a new debug session. Sometimes it also holds onto a port. Here I show how I find these processes and stop them.

I love using Docker when developing software, but installing it on Linux is not as simple as I had hoped. If you have hit the error “docker-desktop : Depends: docker-ce-cli but it is not installable” then this post is for you.

This post is very like the previous, getting a Web API application using .NET 6 and Kestrel up and running on an EC2 instance, but with Linux this time.