Unable to install .NET 8 SDK on Alpine following official instructions

[bdovaz]

Describe the bug

I try to install the .NET 8 SDK following the official instructions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-alpine#install-net-8

The result is that it does not exist.

https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.18/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.18/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

Related: dotnet/docs#38904

To Reproduce

Run: apk search dotnet

You will see that there are no results for dotnet8.

[bdovaz]

I see that although it has not been communicated here or in the other issue I mention, the documentation has been changed and now says that this installation method is not available yet.

When will it be available @marcpopMSFT? .NET 8 came out in November and we are in February....

Thanks.

[marcpopMSFT]

@rbhanda and @MichaelSimons who may know the answer to that question.

[MichaelSimons]

Alpine does not backport newer .NET releases to older versions. Because of the timing of the .NET 8.0 release and Alpine 3.19 (they were very close to each other), .NET 8.0 was not included in Alpine 3.19. Expect to see it with 3.20. It is available in edge today to try out.

[DrMarkDunne]

@MichaelSimons did .net 8 make into 3.20?

[MichaelSimons]

@MichaelSimons did .net 8 make into 3.20?

It appears so - https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=dotnet8*&branch=v3.20&repo=&arch=x86_64&maintainer=