Upgrading ASP.NET 5 from beta-4 to beta-5

Question

Upgraded ASP.NET5 from beta-4 to beta-5 following the instructions on Microsoft's site: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/06/30/asp-net-5-beta5-now-available.aspx

Got ton's of compile errors (1900+) like I was missing core .NET stuff (System.Object not defined, etc). I followed the solution posted at this other similar question: Error Upgrading from ASP.NET 5 Beta 4 to Beta 5 But this did not resolve the issue. I now get errors that the following runtime could not be found: dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta5

If I run the command "dnvm list" I get the following output:

Active Version           Runtime Architecture
------ -------           ------- ------------
       1.0.0-beta4       clr     x64
       1.0.0-beta4       clr     x86
       1.0.0-beta4       coreclr x64
       1.0.0-beta4       coreclr x86
  *    1.0.0-beta6-12254 clr     x86
       1.0.0-beta6-12254 coreclr x86

So dnvm upgrade skipped over beta5 and went straight to beta6, but it appears some things are still looking for beta5. Is there a way to force dvnm to install beta5?

I've attempted to run the command:

 dnvm install 1.0.0-beta5

Which results in the error:

'dnx-clr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta6-12254' is already installed.

Notice it says beta6 for the error! Perhaps it's being used as an alias for beta5 or it's just not possible to install earlier versions?

Answer 1

dnvm installs from the release feed by default. We've branched for beta6 and beta5 is not longer on that feed.

To solve the issue, set the DNX_FEED variable:

set DNX_FEED=https://nuget.org/api/v2
dnvm install 1.0.0-beta5

PS: I've opened a bug to track this. It would be nice to have a regular argument to specify the feed.