Errors when projects target .NET 5

I’m using dotnet-outdated v2.11.0 and after updating the TFM of my projects to net5.0 and running dotnet outdated to analyze the packages to migrate, I’m getting the errors below:

Errors occurred while analyzing dependencies for some of your projects. Are you sure you can connect to all your configured NuGet servers?

Unable to find DOTNET_HOST_PATH environment variable. If you use credential providers for your NuGet sources you need to have this set to the path to the `dotnet` executable.

I have a nuget.config at the root the repo pointing to nuget.org exclusively thus I don’t think it’s the case of not being able to connect to nuget servers.

DOTNET_HOST_PATH is indeed not defined (not sure why… Probably something missing in the .NET 5 SDK install process).

My nuget.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <clear />
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" />
  </packageSources>
  <disabledPackageSources>
    <clear />
  </disabledPackageSources>
  <fallbackPackageFolders>
    <clear />
  </fallbackPackageFolders>
</configuration>

[slang25]

Ah! Ok, the penny has dropped.

So when you run dotnet outdated --version you see 2.11...., this is the original tool that was abandoned and de-listed from nuget.org.

This repository is the official continuation of that project, however has a different nuget id.

In order to have the latest version which should not have this issue please run the following:

dotnet tool uninstall --global dotnet-outdated
dotnet tool install --global dotnet-outdated-tool

As a consumer of this tool, this sucks, please accept my appologies. If you still have this issue then please let us know.

[VahidN]

It’s happening again with .NET 7.0 RTM. I’m using V 4.3.0.