How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu

By Benjamin Perkins · · ,

I wrote this article about running Visual Studio Code on Linux here and wanted to now create a more complicated console app.  To do this I wanted to install the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet Package.

To open the console where the commands are added select View –> Integrated Terminal from the menu bar.

I started with creating a .NET Core application in Visual Studio Core using this command, see Figure 1.

dotnet new console

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Figure 1, creating a new Visual Studio Code .NET Core application on Linux

The way you add the package is by executing this dotnet command, see Figure 2.

dotnet add package Newtonsoft.Json

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Figure 2, Adding a NuGet package to .NET Core application on Linux using Visual Studio Code

Pretty easy…now let’s go break something Smile