Nuget package manager console - Package does not contain a manifest

Question

I suddenly get this error on every package I try to update/reinstall in my project.. How can I start to debug this problem? Does the package manager create a log file with more details than this? Where is the manifest that it does not find?

Same package in different project but same solution works fine.

Answer 1

I m having the same issue.I think it might be a nuget version issue.I tried to install the package at my visual studio 2013, with nuget version is 2.12.0.817 and i got the same error. Then i tried installing the same package at my visual studio 2015, running nuget version 3.4.4.1321 and the package got installed successfully. So if i were you i would check my nuget version.

Answer 2

I faced two different problems:

• the tool used to compress the folder (like Compress-Archive)
  adds the root folder name inside the compressed file https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14312
• the tool used to compress the folder has a compression method incompatible
  with the client trying to unzip the .nupkg file.
  For example, in my case the System.IO.Compression.ZipFile class used to compress the content of the folder was incompatible with the client extraction capabilities.
  However, when I manually compressed the same folder content
  with Right-click\\Send To\\Compressed (Zipped) Folder , it was working fine.