After reading a lot about ASP.NET vNext I finally found an hour to give it a try. I only got as far as running the first sample webs, but it’s very nice to see it work.

There where some steps I had to take to get it up and running:

https://github.com/aspnet/home is a good starting point. Starting with the command to install the basic kvm script I already got kvm and was almost able to restore packages.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/master/kvminstall.sh | sh && source ~/.kre/kvm/kvm.sh

The next step was to install Mono from http://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/linux/#debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mono-complete

Next I cloned the aspnet Home samples:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/aspnet/Home.git aspnet.Home
cd aspnet.Home/samples/HelloMvc/

Ready to go!

kpm restore

[…]
System.IO.IOException: The authentication or decryption has failed. —> Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.TlsException

Some NuGet packages failed to restore because the certificate didn’t seem to be validated on my system. After some searching I found this helpful page:
http://www.ganshani.com/blog/2014/12/shell-script-to-setup-net-on-linux/

Executed this scripts (with some manual approvals in between!):

sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://go.microsoft.com
sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nugetgallery.blob.core.windows.net
sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://nuget.org
sudo certmgr -ssl -m https://www.myget.org/F/aspnetvnext/

Another

kpm restore

later, all packages restored perfectly.

Run the web:

k kestrel

– next error, null reference: https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer/issues/29

Again the ganshani.com page helped with the script:

wget http://dist.libuv.org/dist/v1.0.0-rc1/libuv-v1.0.0-rc1.tar.gz 
tar -xvf libuv-v1.0.0-rc1.tar.gz
cd libuv-v1.0.0-rc1/
./gyp_uv.py -f make -Duv_library=shared_library
make -C out
sudo cp out/Debug/lib.target/libuv.so /usr/lib/libuv.so.1.0.0-rc1
sudo ln -s libuv.so.1.0.0-rc1 /usr/lib/libuv.so.1

So maybe things would have been faster using the setup script from Punit Ganshani in the first place, which can also be found on github: https://github.com/punitganshani/ganshani/blob/master/Samples/ASPNET5.0_SampleForLinux/SetupDotNetOnLinux.sh

In the end, this was what I saw:

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