Microsoft’s instructions for installing .NET 5.0 on RHEL require an active Red Hat subscription so that you can enable the rhel-7-server-dotnet-rpms repository:
$ subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-dotnet-rpms
Although the cost of a Red Hat subscription is included in the AWS EC2 charges for Amazon’s RHEL 7 AMI, the AMI is not configured to use a typical Red Hat subscription. Instead, it is set up to use Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) hosted in AWS. This allows machines based on Amazon’s RHEL 7 AMI to access all of the software and updates provided by a standard RHEL 7 subscription, without registering a subscription with Red Hat.
The AWS RHEL images are configured with access to several repositories. If the rhel-7-server-dotnet-rpms repo is available, then we can replace the subscription-manager step with:
yum-config-manager --enable $REPONAMELet us see which repositories are provided by the RHUI:
$ yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, search-disabled-repos
repo id repo name status
rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 dotNET on RHEL Debug RPMs disabled
rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpms/7Server/x86_64 dotNET on RHEL RPMs for R disabled
rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 dotNET on RHEL Source RPM disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-debug-rpms/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-rpms/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-source-rpms/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled: 243
rhel-7-server-rhui-rh-common-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled: 32,037
rhel-7-server-rhui-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-7-server-rhui-supplementary-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux disabled
rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-debug-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Software Collecti disabled
rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Software Collecti disabled
rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Software Collecti disabled
rhui-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Custom Repositories - Red enabled: 14
repolist: 32,294As you can see, at the time of writing, the relevant repository is called rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpms. (If you do not see this repository listed, be sure to update the rh-amazon-rhui-client package with yum update rh-amazon-rhui-client. The dotnet repository was not included in older versions of the package.)
Let us enable the repository:
yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-dotnet-rhui-rpmsNow you should be able to continue following Microsoft’s documentation for installing .NET, picking up after the subscription-manager step.