How to get the “dnu” command working on OS X?

Question

Just downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code on OS X 10.10.3.

I\'ve managed to partially follow the installation instructions for ASP.NET 5.

What I fail with

Answer 1

After read this issue in GitHub:

GitHub Issue

Run nano ~/.bash_profile

Add:

export PATH="~/npm-global/bin:$PATH" 
source dnvm.sh

Edit: It not solve the problem at all... when I try to update the Nuget Packages using dnvm command (is the purpose of dnx restore), I have other error:

Error: Could not find latest version from feed https://nuget.org/api/v2

Answer 2

To answer my own question:

What helped, was Jed Grant's comment and link to this GitHub discussion.

I did the following in a terminal:

source dnvm.sh
dnvm upgrade -u

And suddenly the "dnu" command was available so that I could run

dnu restore

As the installation instructions told me.

Answer 3

Bit of a noob answer, but it might help someone. If you're on OS X, make sure you follow the instructions carefully! I completely missed some OS X specific instructions under the heading "Installing ASP.NET 5 and DNX". I read the heading and thought "I've already installed this".

The instructions for OS X points to:

https://github.com/aspnet/home#os-x

It says to run the following homebrew commands:

brew tap aspnet/dnx
brew update
brew install dnvm

After this succeeds, the following text is output in the console:

Add the following to the ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

source dnvm.sh

I added it to my .bash_profile and now dnu restore works from my project directory!

In general, I found the steps on the ASP.NET 5 docs page much clearer than the Visual Studio Code page. Acronyms are explained and screenshots of many steps are present.

Installing ASP.NET 5 on Mac OS X

Your First ASP.NET 5 Application on a Mac

Answer 4

For those trying to get this working on windows with the same problem, you just need to run dnvm upgrade from command prompt. dnu will now work.

Answer 5

Steps to get dnu command working.

Open Visual Studio Command prompt and run following commands:

1. check list of available DNVM using command dnvm list
2. dnvm use 1.0.0-rc1-update1 (change based on your requirement)
3. dnu restore