how to resolve "Unable to find package" nuget error
Solution 1:
The package source was offline !!
I installed VS2017 professional on my system and opened an existing project and found that multiple packages were missing. I tried everything I could, without looking at Package Source !!
I am writing this answer as I tried the below solutions but none of them worked :
- Clearing the cache
- Restoring or re-installing the packages
- Changing the targetFramework
- Updating the Nuget Package manager
Solution:
Step 01. Go to Package Manager Settings (Tools > Nuget Package Manager > Package Manager Settings)
Step 02. Check the Package Source(s). As you can see, the package source is here already downloaded SDK/nugets/packages. I don't know the reason but the online package source from nuget.org was missing from my system installation of Visual Studio.
Step 03. Install the nuget.org as package source and then 'Clear All Nuget Cache(s)' and then restore the packages. The error will go away.
Name: nuget.org ( or as you wish) Source: https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
Solution 2:
I just did this and it went fine. In your Visual Studio, go to:
- Tools
- Nuget Package Manager
- General
- Click button "Clear All Nuget Cache(s)
- Package Resources and click "Update"
- Woolah! Error gone...
Solution 3:
GitHub Actions
I would like to add that in Github Actions, the nuget.org repository is not queried by default. Instead GitHub defaults to a cached package repository and it might happen that your referenced package is not in that cache but is on nuget.org (I had that for System.CommandLine).
You can fix this by adding a nuget.config
file to your root directory containing the following
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<packageSources>
<add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" />
</packageSources>
</configuration>
Example github_action.yml file
name: .NET
on:
push:
branches: [ master ]
pull_request:
branches: [ master ]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: windows-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Setup .NET
uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
with:
dotnet-version: 5.0
- name: Clean
run: dotnet clean && dotnet nuget locals all --clear
- name: Restore dependencies
run: dotnet restore
- name: Build
run: dotnet build --no-restore
- name: Test
run: dotnet test --no-build --verbosity normal
Solution 4:
for me: %appdata%\NuGet\NuGet.Config contained only
<activePackageSource>
<add key="nuget.org" value="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" />
</activePackageSource>
after doing
nuget sources add -Name "NuGet official package source" -Source "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json"
this was added
<packageSources> <add key="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" value="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" /> <add key="NuGet official package source" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" /> </packageSources>
afterwards packeges were found.