Default instructions for installation of .NET Core 2.1 do not contain instructions how to install the technology on Linux Mint.
You may have a temptation to go with Ubuntu instructions, but you’ll end up in troubles with installing libicu60 or libicu57.
The instructions compatible with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia are instructions for Linux Debian 8 (not 9).
Commands for repository configuration:
Commands for installation:
Just for the record, the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-prod.list is:
➜ ~ sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-2.1
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
dotnet-sdk-2.1 : Depends: dotnet-runtime-2.1 (>= 2.1.3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: aspnetcore-runtime-2.1 (>= 2.1.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What did I do wrong? >.