Publishing and Consuming GitHub Package Repository with NuGet: Unable to load the service index error

Question

I\'m trying to push and then consume a NuGet package using GitHub packages (documentation here). As a newcomer, after experimenting a bit I managed to push a sample NuGet packag

Answer 1

The documentation for pushing NuGet packages to Github is outdated. The steps that worked for me:

• Go to GitHub
  • Click your avatar (top-right)
  • Settings
  • Developer settings
  • Personal access tokens
  • Generate
    • write:packages
    • read:packages
    • delete:packages
    • This will automatically check the repo permissions for your OAuth token
  • Click Generate token
• Open cmd
  • Navigate to your project directory or the directory containing your NuGet package
  • Add a new nuget source:
    • dotnet nuget add source --username [GithubUserName] --password [YourApiKey] --name github https://nuget.pkg.github.com/[UsernameOrOrganizationName]/index.json
  • Push the package to the github source
    • dotnet nuget push --source github bin\Release\MyAwesomePackage.1.0.0.nupkg

Verify that the Github API key is not stored inside a Nuget.config file inside your solution before committing your code to source control.