envlinux.md

Linux System Prerequisites [2.125.0 or above]

Supported Distributions and Versions

We support the following OSes, a subset of the ones .NET Core 2.1 supports:

x64

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (see note 1), 7
• CentOS 6 (see note 1), 7
• Oracle Linux 7
• Fedora 30, 29
• Debian 9
• Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04
• Linux Mint 18, 17
• openSUSE 42.3 or later versions
• SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) 12 SP2 or later versions

ARM32 (see note 2)

• Debian 9
• Ubuntu 18.04

Notes:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 require installing the specialized "rhel.6-x64" agent package
2. ARM instruction set ARMv7 or above is required, you can get your device's information by executing uname -a

Install .Net Core 2.x Linux Dependencies

The ./config.sh will check .Net Core 2.x dependencies during agent configuration.
You might see something like this which indicate a dependency's missing.

./config.sh
    libunwind.so.8 => not found
    libunwind-x86_64.so.8 => not found
Dependencies is missing for Dotnet Core 2.1
Execute ./bin/installdependencies.sh to install any missing Dotnet Core 2.1 dependencies.

You can easily correct the problem by executing ./bin/installdependencies.sh.
The installdependencies.sh script should install all required dependencies on all supported Linux versions

Note: The installdependencies.sh script will try to use the default package management mechanism on your Linux flavor (ex. yum/apt-get/apt). You might need to deal with error coming from the package management mechanism related to your setup, like #1353

Git

If you use git, git >= 2.9.0 is a pre-requisite for Linux agents. To install an up-to-date version, please follow the instructions on the Git website.

Optionally Java if using TFVC

The agent distributes Team Explorer Everywhere.

But, if you are using TfsVc, install Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 1.6+.

Notes:

1. Only install JRE is not sufficient.
2. Don't use OpenJDK, use Oracle JDK.

More .Net Core Prerequisites Information