“No executable” when using dotnet add

Question

I'm trying to add a Nuget .core package using

dotnet add package [package name]

but get "No executable found matching command dotnet-add". I've installed Nuget and can use "dotnet" to create applications, restore, build, run, etc.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

The dotnet add family of verbs was released in version 1.0.0 of the dotnet cli tooling and is not part of the 1.0.0-preview2-* range of versions previously used for project.json projects.

This means that dotnet add verbs are only available for msbuild based projects (=> .csproj).