vscode-azurearmtools: Error acquiring .NET Core tooling (multiple issues)

I have a deploy project (.deployproj file) that was created in visual studio and includes ARM templates. I get the following error when I open the project folder.

Downloading .NET Core tooling version(s) 2.2.5 ...... Error!
Failed to download .NET Core tooling 2.2.5:
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 205: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable


Error: /home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 205: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/ha/.vscode/extensions/msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools-0.7.0/assets/install scripts/dotnet-install.sh: line 147: VERSION_ID: unbound variable

vscode version information

Version: 1.38.1 Commit: b37e54c98e1a74ba89e03073e5a3761284e3ffb0 Date: 2019-09-11T13:30:08.229Z Electron: 4.2.10 Chrome: 69.0.3497.128 Node.js: 10.11.0 V8: 6.9.427.31-electron.0 OS: Linux x64 5.3.1-arch1-1-ARCH

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 22 (11 by maintainers)

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Thanks. BTW, you can use the new azureResourceManagerTools.languageServer.dotnetExePath setting to point to an existing dotnet.exe instead of us downloading it.

StephenWeatherford on Nov 19, 2019

Never mind, I see in the original markdown that there is a slash, apparently markdown is interpreting the “.” as an escaped period.

StephenWeatherford on Nov 18, 2019

Trying to get a handle on these acquire dotnet issues. Is this error message from above correct?

Error Message: Unexpected path returned for .net core: c:\Users<user>\AppData\Roaming\Code - Insiders\User\globalStorage*msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools.dotnet*\2.2.5\dotnet.exe

I.e., is there really no backslash before “.dotnet”?

StephenWeatherford on Nov 13, 2019