Dotnet CLI not working after uninstalling the SDKs and Runtimes from x64 folder on M1 machine

Question

Problem is that I can't use dotnet CLI anymore.. It throws the following error A fatal error occurred, the folder [/usr/local/share/dotnet/x64/host/fxr] does not contain any version-numbered child folders

Can you help me fix it?

I've been having problems with C# Dev Kit for VS Code and noticed that my SDK and Runtimes for .NET live under /usr/local/share/dotnet/x64/sdk when I actually use MacBook M1 with ARM architecture.

I decided to remove the sdks and runtimes from there and reinstall them with appropriate microsoft .pkg for arm64 architecture.

I did so, I ran bunch of rm -rf commands in that x64 folder, reinstalled the SDK 7.0.12 and now it's pointing to a proper /usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk folder.

In relation to other posts I can confirm I never used homebrew to install my previous versions.

Answer 1

Turned out that the easiest I could do is to get dotnet uninstaller tool. Just got rid of the whole dot net all together and installed it again with a proper .pkg file from microsoft website.

This post helped me: How can I uninstall dotnet core from macOS Sierra