missing runtime store error on linux with .NET Core 2.0 runtime only

Question

I am updating some applications from .NET Core 1.1 to 2.0. The apps work fine locally but after updating the Runtime on my linux VM and deploying, I am getting errors:

An assembly specified in the application dependencies manifest (foo.deps.json) was not found: package: 'Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore', version: '2.1.1' path: 'lib/netstandard1.6/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.AspNetCore.dll'
This assembly was expected to be in the local runtime store as the application was published using the following target manifest files: aspnetcore-store-2.0.0-linux-x64.xml;aspnetcore-store-2.0.0-osx-x64.xml;aspnetcore-store-2.0.0-win7-x64.xml;aspnetcore-store-2.0.0-win7-x86.xml

I think this is because the Runtime download does not generate the new runtime store folder needed when you use the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All package.

I can install the whole SDK instead and this works fine but I would prefer to continue to use the runtime only.

How do I generate the runtime cache manually without requiring the SDK on the production server?

Answer 1

Update 12/4/2017

The ASP.NET Core runtime is now listed on the main downloads page for .NET Core. https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/linux

Update 10/3/2017

You can also install from a package feed.

See this link for instructions on adding the .NET Core package feeds for apt, yum, zypper, and others: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archives/2.0.0-download.md#installing-net-core-on-linux

For example, if you wanted to install on Ubuntu 16, you would do this:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/microsoft-ubuntu-xenial-prod xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install aspnetcore-store-2.0.0

Original answer

You can download just the ASP.NET Core runtime store from here:

https://dist.asp.net/runtimestore/2.0.0/linux-x64/aspnetcore.runtimestore.tar.gz

You'll also need to download the .NET Core 2.0.0 runtime (see https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archives/2.0.0-download.md).

Extract both of these into the same folder, i.e. the "store" and "additionalDeps" folder from the runtime store archive should be parallel to the dotnet executable.

Answer 2

Per the Runtime package store documentation, you can add the following to your .csproj file:

<PropertyGroup>
  <PublishWithAspNetCoreTargetManifest>false</PublishWithAspNetCoreTargetManifest>
</PropertyGroup>

and the dependencies will be included when you use dotnet publish.