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 is when the instruction tells me to call

dnu restore

When doing this in my terminal, it says:

-bash: dnu: command not found

I've found a somewhat similar question here on SO which unfortunately did not help me.

My question:

How can I make the "dnu" command work on OS X?

Update:

Someone marked my questions as the duplicate of the SO question I linked to by myself.

Now SO forces me to edit my question to proof that it is not a duplicate. So basically that is me right now:

I hope this satisfies the needs of SO to not close my question as a duplicate since my understanding is that it is no duplicate.

Answer 1

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 2

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 3

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.