OS X "El Capitan" (10.11) comes with 0.9.8 version of OpenSSL. .NET Core depends on versions >= 1.0.1 of OpenSSL. You can update the version by using Homebrew, MacPorts or manually. The important bit is that you need to have the required OpenSSL version on the path when you work with .NET Core.
With Homebrew, you can run the following commands to get this done:
brew update
brew install openssl
brew link --force openssl
MacPorts doesn't have the concept of linking, so it is reccomended that you uninstall 0.9.8 version of OpenSSL using the following command:
sudo port upgrade openssl
sudo port -f uninstall openssl @0.9.8
You can verify whether you have the right version using the openssl version
command from the Terminal.
There is a known issue in oh-my-zsh installer that interferes with how path_helper
works on OS X systems. In short,
the said installer creates a .zshrc
file which contains the exploded path at the time of installation. This clobbers
any dynamically generated path, such as the one generated by path_helper
.
There is an outstanding PR on the oh-my-zsh repo for this.
Workaround 1: symlink the dotnet
binary in the installation directory to a place in the global path, e.g. /usr/local/bin
.
The command you can use is:
ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin
Workaround 2: edit your .zshrc
and/or .zshprofile
files to add the /usr/local/share/dotnet
to the $PATH.
When using non-release versions of the CLI, dotnet restore
will fail to restore Microsoft.NETCore.App
because for that particular version it exists on a NuGet feed that is not configured on the machine. This behavior is by design and does not happen with public releases (such as RC2).
Workaround: create a NuGet.config
file in the project directory which contains the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<packageSources>
<!--To inherit the global NuGet package sources remove the <clear/> line below -->
<clear />
<add key="dotnet-core" value="https://dotnet.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/index.json" />
<add key="api.nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
</packageSources>
</configuration>
If you have Virtual Box and you try to use the CLI on a Win7 x64 machine, dotnet restore
will be really slow and will eventually time out without doing much restoring.
Issues tracking this:
Affects: dotnet restore
Workaround: disable the VirtualBox network interface and do the restore.
The StdLib package is on a MyGet feed. In order to restore it, a MyGet feed needs to be added to the NuGet feeds, either locally per application or in a central location.
Issues tracking this:
Affects: dotnet restore
Workaround: update to the latest bits and run dotnet new
in an empty directory. This will
now drop a nuget.config
file that you can use in other applications.
If you cannot update, you can use the following nuget.config
:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<packageSources>
<!--To inherit the global NuGet package sources remove the <clear/> line below -->
<clear />
<add key="dotnet-core" value="https://dotnet.myget.org/F/dotnet-core/api/v3/index.json" />
<add key="api.nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
</packageSources>
</configuration>
OS X doesn't really have an uninstall capacity for PKGs like Windows has for MSIs. There is, however, a way to remove the bits as well as the "recipe" for dotnet. More information can be found on this SuperUser question.
This document outlines the known issues and workarounds for the current state of the CLI tools. Issues will also have a workaround and affects sections if necessary. You can use this page to get information and get unblocked.
A "known issue" is a major issue that block users in doing their everyday tasks and that affect all or most of the commands in the CLI tools. If you want to report or see minor issues, you can use the issues list.