Nuget package installation failure

Question

When trying to install a package from our newly created private Nuget Feed i get the following error.

Could not install package \'GC.Timecode 1.0.0.3\'. You are tryi

Answer 1

Another possibility which I just worked through was that local Nuget tools can be too old.

I was trying to install https://github.com/alastairtree/LazyCache which is a .Net standard 2.0 project. My local project was .NET framework 4.7.2, which is compatible. And yet I got the error cited in the question.

The problem was that my VS2015 installation of Nuget was not the latest. Although under Tools > Extensions it did NOT show any available updates, there was in fact a much newer Nuget available at https://www.nuget.org/downloads (3.6x vs 3.4x I believe).

I installed that and the problem was resolved. Apparently the old Nuget did not understand what .NET Standard was.