how to add Linux library to my Xamarin project - xamarin

Question

I want to install this library "libgdiplus" with my deployment how to do this
standard Linux command as the following
"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libgdiplus"

Answer 1

In Xamarin and mono this can be resolved using:
https://github.com/CoreCompat/libgdiplus-packaging
To understand System.Drawing.Common is the graphics library which ships as part of .NET Core. On macOS and Linux, it uses libgdiplus as its back-end. This trick mirrors what mono did to implement System.Drawing (CoreCompat) for mac and Linux.
By adding CoreCompat libgdiplus packaging to our .net project we can remove the need to manually install libgdiplus as it will be loaded as a local native binary to our bin directory automatically.
This is available for MacOS as a nuget package:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/runtime.osx.10.10-x64.CoreCompat.System.Drawing/
For Linux:
I believe we need sudo permissions as you are correct t suggest:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libgdiplus
Update 2021 - Use .Net Core or .Net 5 instead:
System.Drawing.Common as of version 5 and above now has reduced dependancies on external libgdiplus and works out-of-the-box in many more scenarios. This is part of .NET Core rather than mono though.