msbuild on Ubuntu is missing?

[dluc]

I'm trying to setup an Ubuntu environment where I can use dotnet and msbuild for cross platform development.

I've tried several combinations, but I always end up with an environment without the msbuild command.
Could you point to the DEB package containing the msbuild command please?

Some options I've tried:

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 14.04

Some problems I've encountered

• Dependency on libicu52 which is not installable

  dotnet-sharedframework-microsoft.netcore.app-1.1.1 : Depends: libicu52 (>= 52~m1-1~) but it is not installable
  dotnet-dev : Depends: libicu52 (>= 52~m1-1~) but it is not installable
  Package 'libicu52' has no installation candidate

• dotnet-dev-1.0.0-featmsbuild-003542 depends on libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) which is not available

  dotnet-dev-1.0.0-featmsbuild-003542 : Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 is to be installed

• dotnet-dev-ubuntu.16.04-x64.latest.tar.gz doesn't contain msbuild
• https://dotnetcli.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet/Sdk/rel-1.0.1/dotnet-sdk-ubuntu.16.04-x64.latest.deb doesn't contain msbuild
• Circular dependency between dotnet-sharedframework-microsoft.netcore.app-1.1.1 and dotnet-sharedframework-microsoft.netcore.app-1.0.4 both need to be explicitly installed (apt-get should do it automatically)

[dasMulli]

msbuild is supposed to be invoked as a sub-command of the dotnet command - does that work?:

dotnet msbuild your.csproj

[livarcocc]

@dasMulli is correct. There is no separate msbuild executable cross-plat. You need to invoke it though dotnet msbuild.

Also, for the 1.0 CLI, we support up to Ubuntu 16.10. For 2.0 CLI, we have a linux portable x64 distro that works on multiple linux distros.

I am going to close the issue. If dotnet msbuild does not work for you, please re-activate.

[dluc]

thanks, I will try that.

In Ubuntu 16.04 though I cannot install neither dotnet or dotnet-dev

echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 417A0893
apt-get update
apt-get install dotnet-dev

Result:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 dotnet-dev : Depends: libicu52 (>= 52~m1-1~) but it is not installable

I tried changing apt sources to

echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list

but there there is no dotnet or dotnet-dev package.

I'll try Ubuntu 16.10