title: NuGet install-package doesn't work. How can I get more verbose information to help debug why this is failing?
body: <p>A collegue is trying to install a nuget package into a simple default c# web application. It fails almost instantly.</p>
  
  <p>Is there an argument I can provide to <code>Install-Package &lt;some nuget package&gt;</code> in the Visual Studio Package Manager Console to get some verbose information to help debug why the installation fails?</p>
  
  <p>Error Message: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>An error occurred while retrieving package metadata for '' from source 'MyGet'.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Info:
  Visual Studio: <code>V2015</code>
  NuGet extension: <code>3.4.4.1321</code>
  Nuget package source: <strong>MyGet</strong></p>
  
  <p>Sample <code>NuGet.config</code> file found in the root directory of the solution:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;packageSources&gt;
      &lt;add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" /&gt;
      &lt;add key="MyGet" value="https://www.myget.org/F/&lt;our package&gt;/api/v2" /&gt; 
    &lt;/packageSources&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For myself, I can install the package fine. In fact, we have 5 packages in this MyGet public repo and I just installed 2 of the packages, just then .. when I test this out (again) before I created this SO question.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have a suggestion, please?</p>
  
  <h3>UPDATE</h3>
  
  <p>As stated above, this is using the PACKAGE MANAGER CONSOLE, not the CLI.</p>
  
  <p>Using the <code>-verbosity detailed</code> in the PMC this is what happens..</p>
  
  <pre><code>PM&gt; install-package xunit -verbosity detailed
  Install-Package : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'verbosity'.
  At line:1 char:23
  + install-package xunit -verbosity detailed
  +                       ~~~~~~~~~~
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Install-Package], ParameterBindingException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,NuGet.PackageManagement.PowerShellCmdlets.InstallPackageCommand
  </code></pre>