How to get the “dnu” command working on OS X?

Question

Just downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code on OS X 10.10.3.

I\'ve managed to partially follow the installation instructions for ASP.NET 5.

What I fail with

Answer 1

Bit of a noob answer, but it might help someone. If you're on OS X, make sure you follow the instructions carefully! I completely missed some OS X specific instructions under the heading "Installing ASP.NET 5 and DNX". I read the heading and thought "I've already installed this".

The instructions for OS X points to:

https://github.com/aspnet/home#os-x

It says to run the following homebrew commands:

brew tap aspnet/dnx
brew update
brew install dnvm

After this succeeds, the following text is output in the console:

Add the following to the ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

source dnvm.sh

I added it to my .bash_profile and now dnu restore works from my project directory!

In general, I found the steps on the ASP.NET 5 docs page much clearer than the Visual Studio Code page. Acronyms are explained and screenshots of many steps are present.

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