Install octopus CLI action fails on a self-hosted windows runner about install-octopus-cli-action HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @DavidThompsonWG,

To fix this you need to either install Powershell Core or install a dotnet core (v5/v6) on the machine.
This unfortunately happens because of the code in https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/daf8bb00606d37ee2431d9b1596b88513dcf9c59/packages/tool-cache/src/tool-cache.ts#L374-L379 which is part of the Github lib.

As you can see from that code, you probably only have .NetFramework installed and hence calling [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('${escapedFile}', '${escapedDest}', $true) which won't work, have a look at the api specs ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.compression.zipfile.extracttodirectory?view=netframework-4.8#overloads ), on the other hand the .NetCore has the correct overloads ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.compression.zipfile.extracttodirectory?view=net-6.0#overloads ).

To me this is a flaw with the Github tool-cache Api and I have submitted a bug report in their repo, that you can subscribe to.

Given we won't be able to fix this, and hopefully the workarounds mentioned above work, I'll close this issue for now.
Let us know how you go?

Regards
John

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Hi @johnsimons

Thanks for getting back to me. We do have the dotnet framework SDK 3.1, 5 and 6 installed on the server, but I will try and install Powershell Core, and see how we get on.

Thanks,
David

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