Install the ASP.NET Core runtime machine-wide on a Raspberry Pi, where packages are unavailable and you normally have to fuck around with arguments and symlinks

install-dotnet

#!/bin/sh

SCRIPT_FILE=/root/dotnet-install.sh
INSTALLATION_DIR=/usr/share/dotnet

sudo rm -f $SCRIPT_FILE
echo Downloading installation script
sudo wget -q https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh -O $SCRIPT_FILE
sudo chmod o+x $SCRIPT_FILE

echo
sudo $SCRIPT_FILE --version latest --runtime aspnetcore --install-dir $INSTALLATION_DIR --no-path
sudo ln -f -s $INSTALLATION_DIR/dotnet /usr/bin/dotnet

echo
dotnet --list-runtimes
sudo rm $SCRIPT_FILE

echo
echo Done, you may want to delete old versions from $INSTALLATION_DIR/host/fxr/ and $INSTALLATION_DIR/shared/