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Troels Larsen
Troels Larsen

Reputation: 4651

NuGet missing .nuget folder i c:\Users\MyUserName

I finally caved and installed VS2015 on my build server to avoid the pains of installing the necessary components individually, but now I'm presented with a new error when building.

Running MSBuild on my solution yields the following error:

 "C:\Users\Bamboo\bamboo-home\xml-data\build-dir\IMP-COOK-JOB1\Imp.Cook.Api\Imp.Cook.Api.sln" (default target) (1) ->
"C:\Users\Bamboo\bamboo-home\xml-data\build-dir\IMP-COOK-JOB1\Imp.Cook.Api\Imp.Cook.Api\Imp.Cook.Api.csproj" (default target) (2) ->
"C:\Users\Bamboo\bamboo-home\xml-data\build-dir\IMP-COOK-JOB1\Imp.Cook.Api\Imp.Cook.Models\Imp.Cook.Models.csproj" (default target) (3) ->
(ResolveNuGetPackageAssets target) ->
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\NuGet\Microsoft.NuGet.targets(89,5):
error : The package Microsoft.CSharp with version 4.0.0 could not be found in 
C:\Users\Bamboo\.nuget\packages. 
Run a NuGet package restore to download the package.

Now, I can manually create a .nuget folder in the Bamboo users dir, and that helps (it still fails on the next package Microsoft.NETCore.Portable.Compatibility).

But what piece of the puzzle am I missing here? I run nuget restore before running msbuild, and it gets the packages I use directly in my project.

Imp.Cook.Models is a portable class library targeting Windows 10 Universal apps and .NET 4.6.

The build server is running Windows Server 2012.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9845

Answers (3)

Christopher Burch
Christopher Burch

Reputation: 41

I was also receiving an error message of the "C:\Users\username.nuget\packages" form. I was able to solve it by first deleting both the Users\username.nuget folder, and all of the folders in the solution's packages folder, and then restoring the nuget packages.

Upvotes: 1

Aaron Qiu
Aaron Qiu

Reputation: 29

To install Microsoft.CSharp, run the following command in the Package Manager Console.

Then input: Install-Package Microsoft.CSharp -Version 4.0.0 https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CSharp/4.0.0

Upvotes: 1

Jan De Dobbeleer
Jan De Dobbeleer

Reputation: 865

I had more or less the same issue as you so I can share my insights in how I got it to work. First off we have Bamboo running as a service (4 agents). It is important to note that the services needs to logon as a user and not the system account to be able to restore the packages (I do not yet know why). Given that you have a user map indicated as the source for the packages I'll assume that part is ok.

Next up you need to have a properly configured nuget.config file that you will use together with NuGet.exe. Mine looks like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" />
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/" />
  </packageSources>
  <activePackageSource>
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
  </activePackageSource>
</configuration>

Then you need to run the restore command using NuGet.exe (I suggest you get the latest Commandline version from NuGet

I use the following command in a Bamboo step to restore the packages:

NuGet.exe restore "Path_To_Solution" -ConfigFile "path_To_ConfigFile" -NoCache

After that you should see the packages being downloaded to the C:\Users\Bamboo\.nuget\packages folder. When you try to build the solution in the next step using MsBuild it should work.

Upvotes: 6

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