[Bug]: Vintage Story server requires .NET 8 (LGSM still installs .NET 7)

[Yanoee]

User story

I was trying to install VS server on Debian 11 and server was not starting at all.

Game

Vintage Story

Linux distro

Debian 11

Command

command: start, command: update, command: install, command: update-lgsm

Further information

The Vintage Story dedicated server was recently updated to require .NET 8 runtime.
LGSM dependency check currently installs dotnet-runtime-7.0, which causes the server to fail.

Error from ./vintsserver debug:

Framework: 'Microsoft.NETCore.App', version '8.0.0' (x64)
The following frameworks were found:
7.0.20 at [/usr/share/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]
You must install or update .NET to run this application.
Server has stopped: exit code: 150

✅ Fix / Workaround:
Manually install Microsoft’s repo and .NET 8 runtime:

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
apt update
apt install -y dotnet-runtime-8.0

After installing .NET 8, the server runs normally.

Relevant log output

Sep 01 05:19:17.429 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: Logs installed
Sep 01 05:19:18.048 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading check_deps.sh...
Sep 01 05:19:19.098 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Checking debian-11.csv
Sep 01 05:19:21.047 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading debian-11.csv...
Sep 01 05:19:24.188 vintsserver: INSTALL: WARN: Missing dependencies: bc binutils bsdmainutils distro-info dotnet-runtime-7.0 jq lib32gcc-s1 lib32stdc++6 netcat pigz uuid-runtime
Sep 01 05:19:25.029 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading packages-microsoft-prod.deb...
Sep 01 05:19:50.177 vintsserver: INSTALL: WARN: vintsserver does not have sudo access. Manually install dependencies or run ./vintsserver install as root.
Sep 01 05:19:50.824 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading install_server_files.sh...
Sep 01 05:19:51.535 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading update_vints.sh...
Sep 01 05:19:51.663 vintsserver: INSTALL: FAIL: jq is not installed
Sep 01 05:19:52.262 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading core_exit.sh...
Sep 01 05:19:52.283 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: LinuxGSM version: v25.1.6
Sep 01 05:19:52.288 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: core_exit.sh exiting with code: 0
Sep 01 05:20:00.253 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: LinuxGSM version: v25.1.6
Sep 01 05:20:00.258 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: core_exit.sh exiting with code: 0
Sep 01 05:23:59.816 vintsserver: CORE: PASS: Downloading command_update_linuxgsm.sh...
Sep 01 05:24:01.073 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Downloading check_root.sh...
Sep 01 05:24:01.767 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Downloading check_logs.sh...
Sep 01 05:24:02.393 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Using cached IP as public IP address
Sep 01 05:24:02.648 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Updating LinuxGSM
Sep 01 05:24:03.267 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Selecting repo
Sep 01 05:24:04.608 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub script linuxgsm.sh
Sep 01 05:24:04.644 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Checking vintsserver
Sep 01 05:24:04.815 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Checking vintsserver
Sep 01 05:24:04.822 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Checking GitHub config _default.cfg
Sep 01 05:24:05.760 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub config _default.cfg
Sep 01 05:24:05.770 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: Checking GitHub debian-11.csv
Sep 01 05:24:06.692 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub debian-11.csv
Sep 01 05:24:07.587 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_deps.sh
Sep 01 05:24:08.503 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_glibc.sh
Sep 01 05:24:13.772 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: ERROR: Checking GitHub module check_ip.sh
Sep 01 05:24:13.889 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Removing module check_ip.sh
Sep 01 05:24:14.659 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_logs.sh
Sep 01 05:24:15.570 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_permissions.sh
Sep 01 05:24:16.339 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_root.sh
Sep 01 05:24:17.308 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check.sh
Sep 01 05:24:18.179 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_system_requirements.sh
Sep 01 05:24:19.093 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_tmuxception.sh
Sep 01 05:24:20.044 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module check_version.sh
Sep 01 05:24:21.043 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module command_install.sh
Sep 01 05:24:21.933 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module command_update_linuxgsm.sh
Sep 01 05:24:22.970 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_dl.sh
Sep 01 05:24:23.904 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_exit.sh
Sep 01 05:24:24.770 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_getopt.sh
Sep 01 05:24:25.639 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_legacy.sh
Sep 01 05:24:26.560 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_messages.sh
Sep 01 05:24:27.439 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_modules.sh
Sep 01 05:24:28.294 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module core_trap.sh
Sep 01 05:24:29.163 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module info_distro.sh
Sep 01 05:24:30.139 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module info_game.sh
Sep 01 05:24:30.992 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module install_header.sh
Sep 01 05:24:32.031 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module install_logs.sh
Sep 01 05:24:32.955 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module install_server_dir.sh
Sep 01 05:24:33.876 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module install_server_files.sh
Sep 01 05:24:34.767 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Checking GitHub module update_vints.sh
Sep 01 05:24:34.878 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: Updating modules
Sep 01 05:24:34.898 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: INFO: LinuxGSM version: v25.1.6
Sep 01 05:24:34.902 vintsserver: UPDATE-LGSM: PASS: core_exit.sh exiting with code: 0
Sep 01 05:25:18.076 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: Logs installed
Sep 01 05:25:22.049 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: Required dependencies already installed.
Sep 01 05:25:27.306 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading vs_server_linux-x64_1.21.0.tar.gz...
Sep 01 05:25:27.722 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Verifying vs_server_linux-x64_1.21.0.tar.gz with MD5
Sep 01 05:25:27.727 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: vs_server_linux-x64_1.21.0.tar.gz returned MD5 checksum: d16707a5d8e5725cf5c10c9699e03e3c
Sep 01 05:25:27.734 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: Expected MD5 checksum: d16707a5d8e5725cf5c10c9699e03e3c
Sep 01 05:25:33.856 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Extracting vs_server_linux-x64_1.21.0.tar.gz
Sep 01 05:25:34.021 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: clearing tmp directory /home/vintsserver/lgsm/tmp
Sep 01 05:25:38.276 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading check_gamedig.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:39.031 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading install_config.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:39.738 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading fix.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:40.642 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading install_stats.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:46.785 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Downloading install_complete.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:46.816 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: Install Complete!
Sep 01 05:25:46.954 vintsserver: INSTALL: INFO: LinuxGSM version: v25.1.6
Sep 01 05:25:46.959 vintsserver: INSTALL: PASS: core_exit.sh exiting with code: 0
Sep 01 05:25:56.810 vintsserver: CORE: PASS: Downloading linuxgsm.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:58.051 vintsserver: CORE: PASS: Downloading command_start.sh...
Sep 01 05:25:59.655 vintsserver: START: PASS: Downloading check_system_dir.sh...
Sep 01 05:26:00.323 vintsserver: START: PASS: Downloading check_executable.sh...
Sep 01 05:26:03.874 vintsserver: START: PASS: Downloading check_config.sh...
Sep 01 05:26:04.015 vintsserver: START: WARN: Configuration file missing!
Sep 01 05:26:04.029 vintsserver: START: WARN: /home/vintsserver/serverfiles/data/vintsserver/serverconfig.json
Sep 01 05:26:04.141 vintsserver: START: PASS: Using cached IP as public IP address
Sep 01 05:26:05.097 vintsserver: START: PASS: Downloading check_status.sh...
Sep 01 05:26:06.571 vintsserver: START: PASS: Using cached IP as public IP address
Sep 01 05:26:07.553 vintsserver: START: PASS: Downloading core_logs.sh...
Sep 01 05:26:08.276 vintsserver: START: INFO: Rotating log files

Steps to reproduce

1. Fresh install Debian 11 (Bullseye) or Debian 12 (Bookworm).
2. Create a new LGSM Vintage Story instance:
   ./linuxgsm.sh vintserver && ./vintsserver install
3. Run the server:
   ./vintsserver start or ./vintsserver debug
4. Observe that the server fails to launch.

[Kylindrias]

#4732

Related to this closed issue (which may have only been temporarily fixed)