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Installing .NET 5 in Amazon Linux 2 for ARM64

This is a way to install .NET 5 in your home directory without modifying the system.

At the time of this writing, Amazon Linux 2 for ARM64 almost works already, but there is a problem with the ICU library. I will show this problem and how to fix it.

1. Start Amazon Linux 2 and sign in. (I recommend an m6g.medium instance

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Installing Python 3.7 in Amazon Linux 2

This is a way to build Python 3.7 from source and temporarily install it in Amazon Linux 2 without overwriting the system Python and without interfering with the Python in amazon-linux-extras.

At the time of this writing, Amazon Linux 2 offers Python 2.7.14 and (through the extras) Python 3.6.2, but Python 3.7.0 was just released.

1. Start Amazon Linux 2 and sign in. (I recommend a c5.large instance.)