How to install a nuget package from another package source in azure devops pipeline?

Question

I'm trying to run some API test on azure, I've been able to run my artifacts before, but this specific task requires a package that is not in package source: nuget.org, it is a package from the company I work for, so when I run the pipeline i get this message:

##[error]The nuget command failed with exit code(1) and error(NU1101: Unable to find package: name of package

I ran with this problem when creating my project so I had to add the package source, how can I do this on the pipeline?

Answer 1

You can place a nuget.config file at the solution level that lists the package sources, e.g.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <clear />
    <add key="your-nuget" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/example/_packaging/example-nuget/nuget/v3/index.json" />
    <add key="NuGet official package source" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
  </packageSources>
  <activePackageSource>
    <add key="All" value="(Aggregate source)" />
  </activePackageSource>
</configuration>

Note that this should work for Visual Studio too (you should be able to remove the extra package source if you added manually via the VS Tools menu).

Then depending on your flavour of .net it's just a case of having a step to restore the packages before the build, DotNetCoreCLI@2 (command: restore feedsToUse: 'config') or NuGetCommand@2 (command: restore feedsToUse: 'config').