title: How to install NUnit framework in Visual Studio 2012 when using NuGet is not an option?
body: <p>How can I fully install all of the required components for NUnit in VS 2012? It seems like I have either missed some steps, or that the install documentation that I have read does not work for Visual Studio 2012.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I tried:</p>
  
  <p>1) I have installed the NUnit 3 Test Adapter using Extensions, as described here:
  <a href="https://github.com/nunit/docs/wiki/Adapter-Installation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/nunit/docs/wiki/Adapter-Installation</a></p>
  
  <p>This step seems to have worked ok.</p>
  
  <p>2) I then tried to install the framework following these instructions:
  <a href="http://erraticdev.blogspot.com/2012/01/running-or-debugging-nunit-tests-from.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://erraticdev.blogspot.com/2012/01/running-or-debugging-nunit-tests-from.html</a></p>
  
  <p>However, when I click 'install', I get an error saying that this package requires NuGet client 2.12 or higher. Apparently, version 2.12 is not available for VS 2012; the highest supported version is 2.8. Is there any way to install this package without NuGet? None of the manual install answers that I have tried worked.
  It is also unclear to me where I would download the dlls for the NUnit framework FROM if I wanted to install them without using NuGet.</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, is it possible to install NUnit 2 instead? I tried uninstalling the adapter for NUnit 3, installing the one for NUnit 2. When I went to install the framework for NUnit 2, using the above method, it just isn't there. The only option for "NUnit", other than a bunch of other adapters, runners, project loaders, etc, is the one that has the green 'n' in a circle icon that matches that of version 3.</p>