I'm writing a PowerShell script that makes use of the Mono.Cecil library. How would I install the package so I can use it from within the script? Thanks!
(For the record, I did try Googling before asking this, but all that came up was results about PMC and Visual Studio, which aren't relevant to this question.)
I was able to install a package in PowerShell 6 (Core) by specifying the source:
PS > install-package gudusoft.gsqlparser -source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
-SkipDependencies to work around this.~5.x versions of PowerShell have a nuget package source included by default but it doesn't work:
PS > Get-PackageSource
Name ProviderName IsTrusted Location
---- ------------ --------- --------
nuget.org NuGet False https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
PSGallery PowerShellGet False https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/
If you Unregister-PackageSource -Source nuget.org and Register-PackageSource -Location https://www.nuget.org/api/v2 -name nuget.org -Trusted I have been able to install nuget papckages with just Install-Package from PowerShell, not within visual studio. Got the idea from this SO answer.
I don't know what other possible negative impacts there are to removing the v3 version of the nuget.org source but I have been running this way for a while and things appear ok, your mileage may vary.
As an alternative here is an example that gets the job done by pulling down the nuget.exe even if it is a crummy way to have to do this:
function Install-InvokeOracleSQL {
$ModulePath = (Get-Module -ListAvailable InvokeSQL).ModuleBase
Set-Location -Path $ModulePath
if ($PSVersionTable.Platform -ne "Unix") {
$SourceNugetExe = "https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/latest/nuget.exe"
$TargetNugetExe = ".\nuget.exe"
Invoke-WebRequest $sourceNugetExe -OutFile $targetNugetExe
.\nuget.exe install Oracle.ManagedDataAccess
Remove-Item -Path $TargetNugetExe
} elseif ($PSVersionTable.Platform -eq "Unix") {
nuget install Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Core -Version 2.12.0-beta2
}
}
Unregister-PackageSource -Source nuget.org
Unregister-PackageSource -Name nuget.org -WhatIf seems to work but -Source is more correct so I have edited the answer.
Register-PackageSource nugetV2 https://www.nuget.org/api/v2 -ProviderName NuGet followed by install-package packageName -Source nugetV2 got me there without having to unregister anything. @JamesKo I did have to manually do add-type -path longPathName - I wasn't sure how much of this you expected to be automatic. Get-Package will show you where it got installed (and it does get unpacked automatically). And if you want to run without admin privs include -Scope CurrentUserUnable to find a good solution, I ended up just downloading and unzipping the package manually via the NuGet API.
For those who are interested/others who have this problem, here is the code I used.
