How to download the PAC CLI for Linux

I’ve recently added Linux (Ubuntu) to my Mac Book pro 2015 to see if it can last me a couple more years as it couldn’t handle anymore system updates anymore.

With this in mind, I wanted to try and use it as my development machine for personal projects to see what it could handle. Plus, to have an escape from Copilot.

Why PAC CLI

Its one of the essential tools for any developer or administrator of the Power Platform. You can find useful commands here.

Installation

Out of interest (as of 19/11/25) despite the prerequisites saying 6.0 sdk is required for the PAC CLI you actually need 9.0 for Linux (Ubuntu).

I couldn’t get the snap download to work for 9.0 so I ended up directly downloading the sdk from Ubuntu and running the below commands.

sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-9.0

Go ahead and download the extension from VS Code and reload VS code.

Proof it works :)

As always, thanks for reading and take it easy!

This is a personal, non-work project just for learning and sharing.