The Windows operating system ships with (the meta-package manager), but it does not ship with all package providers pre-installed. The default installation includes only the provider for MSI and (sometimes) the legacy PowerShellGet v1.0. The NuGet provider—which is required to query repositories like https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2 —must be bootstrapped on demand or manually installed.
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] 'Administrator')) $params.Scope = 'CurrentUser'
# Set TLS 1.2 for modern NuGet feeds [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 $params = @ Name = 'NuGet' Force = $true ErrorAction = 'Stop'
PackageManagement\Install-PackageProvider : No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider 'NuGet'. Or worse:
The Windows operating system ships with (the meta-package manager), but it does not ship with all package providers pre-installed. The default installation includes only the provider for MSI and (sometimes) the legacy PowerShellGet v1.0. The NuGet provider—which is required to query repositories like https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2 —must be bootstrapped on demand or manually installed.
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] 'Administrator')) $params.Scope = 'CurrentUser' install-packageprovider -name nuget -force
# Set TLS 1.2 for modern NuGet feeds [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 $params = @ Name = 'NuGet' Force = $true ErrorAction = 'Stop' The Windows operating system ships with (the meta-package
PackageManagement\Install-PackageProvider : No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider 'NuGet'. Or worse: install-packageprovider -name nuget -force