how to get all nuget dependencies for offline installation

Question

I two computers, one with internet connection and the other one without.

I want to install a Nuget package (Nuget.server) with all its dependencies on the offline computer. Unfortunately it is not possible just to download the package itself and I have to download all dependencies manually and there are dozens of them.

How can I create a package on the computer with internet connection that contains all dependencies?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I just went through the pain of this and wanted to find a solution using only the NuGet CLI. Turns out it's pretty simple really:

> nuget.exe install <PACKAGENAME> -OutputDirectory <OUTPUTDIR>

The key is the -OutputDirectory switch which makes the CLI install the specified package into a directory that doesn't have a project file in it. Running this command will download the package and all of its dependencies into the output directory, with each package put into a separate sub-folder. You can then grab all of the .nupkg from the output directory and do whatever you need to do with them.

Update: As Igand points out in the comments, the -OutputDirectory switch is not actually required. If omitted nuget.exe will just download into the current folder. Still best to not download it into a folder with a project file in it (unless that is what you're after).

Answer 2

I had a similar need, so I created NuSave.

Cache a single NuGet package with dependencies

nusave cache package "[email protected]" --targetFrameworks "[email protected],[email protected]" --cacheDir "C:\path\to\my-local-feed"

Cache multiple NuGet packages from a .csproj file

nusave cache csproj "C:\path\to\project.csproj" --cacheDir "C:\path\to\my-local-feed"

Cache multiple NuGet packages from an .sln file

nusave cache sln "C:\path\to\solution.sln" --cacheDir "C:\path\to\my-local-feed"

Restore & build a solution offline using my local cache

cd C:\path\to\my-solution
dotnet restore --packages C:\path\to\my-local-feed
dotnet build --no-restore