VB365 Linux Proxies – .NET runtimes must be installed from the Microsoft repository

VB365 v8 introduces the much-awaited Linux proxies, eliminating the need for an additional Windows license. This change allows the majority of resources allocated to the proxies to be utilized by the backup process, with minimal operating system overhead.

To use Linux proxies, one of the requirements is to install .NET and the .NET Core runtime.

I followed a Microsoft article to install .NET on my Ubuntu VM, which I was planning to use as a repository.

Install the SDK

However, when I tried to add the proxy after installing .NET, I encountered the following error:

Detect .NET version. Error: All .NET runtimes must be installed from the Microsoft repository.

Not being particularly Linux-savvy, it took me some time and research to understand the error and figure out how to resolve it.

The issue is related to the requirement to download the .NET components from the Microsoft repository instead of the default repository configured for the Linux OS.

Now, you can proceed to install .NET and .NET Core as per Install the SDK link mentioned above.

Examples of these commands can be found in this Microsoft Article.

Once completed, I reran the Add Proxy wizard and was able to successfully add the proxy