Cannot install. Install-Package: Dependency loop detected for package 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory'

[konrad-jamrozik]

Cannot install. Install-Package: Dependency loop detected for package 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory'

[jmprieur]

@konrad-jamrozik, I suggest you ask the question in the MSAL.ps repo (I'm not familiar with the usage of MSAL in PowerShell, but I know this works very well)

[jmprieur]

@konrad-jamrozik
ADAL.Net does not depend on anything else than the .NET framework

Also this is concerning that nuget would be not trusted?
I think you might have some issues with your nuget.config files ?

[konrad-jamrozik]

@jmprieur my nuget.config below. Note I passed the -Source https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json parameter. I would expect that the content of my nuget.config should not matter given this argument.

It took NuGet several minutes before it output that error.

In any case, if it should work, later I can do some investigation with verbose logging etc. to figure out the root cause and report it back here. For now I have a workaround by directly attaching .dll from the package with Add-Type to the script I am trying to run.

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My nuget.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <activePackageSource>
    <add key="All" value="(Aggregate source)" />
  </activePackageSource>
  <packageSources>
    <clear />
    
    <add key="INTERNAL_NAME" value="INTERNAL_VALUE" />
    <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" />
  </packageSources>
  <packageSourceCredentials>
    <INTERNAL_NAME>
      <add key="Username" value="PAT" />
      <add key="ClearTextPassword" value="PAT_VALUE" />
    </INTERNAL_NAME>
  </packageSourceCredentials>
</configuration>

[jmprieur]

@konrad-jamrozik you might want to clear you Nuget cache?
under C:\users\yourAlias.nuget\packages remove the folder for ADAL for instance.

It's safe to remove all the folders if you don't mind re downloading them, btw

[konrad-jamrozik]

@jmprieur that was the first thing I did. Observe the first line in my first post:

~\.nuget> Remove-item -Force -Recurse packages

[jmprieur]

@konrad-jamrozik is your project using the PackageReference? or still the old package.config?

[konrad-jamrozik]

@jmprieur pardon my ignorance, but to my understanding there is no project to speak of. I am trying to run a powershell .ps1 file that fails on following line:

$platformParameters = New-Object "Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.PlatformParameters" -ArgumentList "Auto"

with error:

Cannot find type [Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.PlatformParameters]: verify that the assembly containing this type is loaded.

hence I concluded I probably need to install the package.

[jmprieur]

@konrad-jamrozik : if you're using it from PowerShell, then please rather use https://github.com/AzureAD/MSAL.PS/, which is maintained and tested, and using MSAL.NET (ADAL.NET is deprecated)

[konrad-jamrozik]

@jmprieur OK thx. I installed the module:

Install-Module MSAL.PS -Repository PSGallery

but the script fails the same way. I understand the answer then is "this problem won't be fixed as the script I am using is unsupported", correct?

[konrad-jamrozik]

OK, thanks @jmprieur. Closing this as a hybrid between "answered", "redirected" and "won't fix" ;)