Multiple SDKs not supported on Dotnet SDK installed as Snap

[shakeelansari63]

Describe the bug

I have installed Dotnet SDK from Snap store via latest beta channel and it is installed correctly. But there is no way to install and older version of SDK inside same installation. This restrict me from developing on projects which need older SDKs.

So now I have Dotnet SDK 8 with Dotnet Runtime 8.
But I also have some projects which use SDK 7, SDK 6 and SDK 5.

There is no way to install all these SDKs alongside SDK 8 which is already installed.

Though Dotnet Support having multiple SDKs alongside, the Snap version does not have this feature.

To Reproduce

Install Dotnet from Snap Store -

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --beta --classic

Check the SDKs from installed dotnet

dotnet --list-sdks

And it will give only SDK.

Exceptions (if any)

Further technical details

• Include the output of dotnet --info
• The IDE (VS / VS Code/ VS4Mac) you're running on, and its version

[md-owes]

I do have a similar issue and it would be inconsistent if i had stable dotnet v7 installed via snap and preview version v8 installed via apt or manual.

[soumyaDghosh]

You can have parallel installs of snaps. Though, it's an experimental features, but atleast it worked for me.

 soumyaxubuntu  soumyas-GF63-Thin-11UC  ~  which dotnet
/snap/bin/dotnet

 soumyaxubuntu  soumyas-GF63-Thin-11UC  ~  dotnet --version
8.0.204

 soumyaxubuntu  soumyas-GF63-Thin-11UC  ~  dotnet-sdk_7.dotnet --version
7.0.408

https://snapcraft.io/blog/parallel-installs-test-and-run-multiple-instances-of-snaps

[shakeelansari63]

Yes that is possible. But in a scenario, if my solution has multiple projects and some projects use a different SDK version than others. This will not work.

This may be a niche case, but I have seen this scenario.