updating nunit-console on command line

Question

I am trying to upgrade my nunit-console version 2.4.8 to the latest or at least to version 3. The only help I found online was about Visual Studio and upgrading it there, but I am working on MAC and in my VS it has already the latest version.

I think the way I search for is about nuget on command line like

nuget update nunit-console

but it gives me following error

No packages.config, project or solution file specified. Use the -self switch to update NuGet.exe.

What is the right command or is there an other way I need to go?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You are trying to update nunit-console that ships with Mono? You cannot update that just by using nuget.

Instead I would just download the NUnit console runner you want to use from nuget and just call that using Mono. A simple way to get the console runner would be to run:

nuget install NUnit.ConsoleRunner

This would download the latest NUnit console runner and extract it to:

NUnit.ConsoleRunner.3.7.0/tools/nunit3-console.exe

Then either use the above nunit3-console.exe runner directly with mono:

mono full/path/to/NUnit.ConsoleRunner.3.7.0/tools/nunit3-console.exe

Or if you want to have a nunit3-console command then I would look at the existing nunit-console script /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/nunit-console

#!/bin/sh
exec /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.8.0/bin/mono --debug $MONO_OPTIONS /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/5.8.0/lib/mono/4.5/nunit-console.exe "$@"

Then create your own based on this script but have it use the new NUnit console runner you downloaded.

You may want to put this script somewhere else instead of /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/ to avoid it being removed when Mono is updated.