How to list available package versions using the dotnet cli?

Question

Using the dotnet cli how can you list the available package versions for a specific package?

Candlestand

Answer 1

Short answer: It's not possible (as far as I know, as of Nov 25, 2019).

There are some other options, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.

• You can see the latest version(s) of installed packages you have that are outdated by running dotnet list package --outdated (requires .NET Core CLI 2.2+).
• You can manually view the available versions for a package at nuget.org/packages. Not a CLI option, but that's an option.

Ansilme

thanks. i came to the same conclusion. will mark this as correct until/if the status changes – Candlestand

Not ideal but workaround would be to call i.e. dotnet add package Newtonsoft.Json --version 100.1.1 with any version that we are sure does not exists and it will fail, but also in the output there will be latest version available. Not ideal but something I guess :) – Fredrick

Answer 2

It's possible with "dotnet-search" a dotnet tool.

https://github.com/billpratt/dotnet-search

• You only need dotnet-core runtime 2.1
• Install via dotnet tool install --global dotnet-search
• Search via dotnet search <package-name>

Distress

That is very old runtime. Seems like this package is quite outdated. – Fredrick

Using this command throws an errorL Unhandled Exception: Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: JSON integer 4645432572 is too large or small for an Int32. Path 'data[0].totalDownloads', line 1, position 1075. – Goingover

Answer 3

A partial implementation of this feature now ships with .NET 8.0.2. While I don't see a way to list all available versions for a package, it can search for and show the most recent version, optionally including pre-release.

If you're looking to just check if a package exists, or check its latest version, you can use it like so:

dotnet package search <packageID>

The feature to list all versions may come at a later date, but this seems to be a good start.

Related github links:

• dotnet cli github issue
• NuGet github issue

Hegira

I'm having trouble getting this CLI tool to work with a github enterprise package store... always throws warn : Failed to retrieve metadata from source ... error. Other mechanisms are working correctly. – Selfrespect

Answer 4

You can do this with the nuget CLI tool, like so: nuget list <package> -AllVersions

Bendicty