No match was found for the specified search criteria and provider name ‘NuGet’

Recently, while I was trying to install the Azure Powershell module, I got this error No match was found for the specified search criteria and provider name ‘NuGet’. In this article, I will walk you through the quick steps to fix this error.

No match was found for the specified search criteria and provider name ‘NuGet’

I was executing the below line of code, and I got this error.

if (Get-Module -Name AzureRM -ListAvailable) {
    Write-Warning -Message 'Azure module not installed.'
} else {
    Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope AllUsers
}

Ohh, again I am getting the same error

Solution

Now, to fix this error, we need to follow the steps below

1. We must first install the ‘NuGet’ package to fix this error.
2. Then run the command below; it will deregister and register the repository again.

Register-PSRepository -Default

3. Now, run the following line of code to install the Azure PowerShell module. Now you will not get any error this time. This will install the Azure PowerShell module successfully.

if (Get-Module -Name AzureRM -ListAvailable) {
    Write-Warning -Message 'Azure module not installed.'
} else {
    Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope AllUsers
}

See below

4. Now, as you can see below, it started installing the Azure PowerShell module successfully. Check out the screenshot below for your reference.

Video Tutorial

Conclusion

This article explained you how to fix the error No match was found for the specified search criteria and provider name ‘NuGet’. Hope this will help you.

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Rajkishore

I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.