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System Requirements

The development environment requires the packages and tools listed below.

Required packages and tools:

  • .NET IDE, Visual Studio 2022 (or newer) or JetBrains Rider
  • .NET SDK 9.0
  • PowerShell 7 (.NET Core variant)
  • Docker Desktop including docker compose
  • Node 22
  • Angular CLI 19 (if you want to develop the frontend)

Infrastructure Components​

Infrastructure components are installed by using Octo's powershell command Install-OctoInfrastructure

Optional tools:

Only SDKs needs to be installed locally, infrastructure components are setup by using Octo's powershell command Install-OctoInfrastructure

Install .NET SDK 9​

Debian bullseye​

Add the package repository. For details please click here.

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Install the package.

sudo apt update && sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-9.0

In addition, the .NET dev certificates must be activated, as there is a general problem here under Linux. Details can be found here.
Download or clone the script and run it.

./scripts/ubuntu-create-dotnet-devcert

Windows​

.NET SDK​

winget install -e --id Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.9
# or
choco install dotnet-sdk

Install PowerShell​

Debian bullseye​

Download and install the .deb file. For details please click here.

Windows​

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget

Install Node​

Node should be available in apt, but it is highly recommended to use Node Version Manager.

Debian bullseye​

See documentation

Windows​

winget install -e --id CoreyButler.NVMforWindows

Start new Terminal

nvm install lts
nvm use lts

MacOS​

brew install nvm
nvm install --lts
nvm use --lts

Install Angular CLI​

If Node has already been installed, the Angular CLI can be installed via npm.

npm install -g @angular/cli