diff --git a/dir.props b/dir.props
index 9b28539294d..4755b9bdd6e 100644
--- a/dir.props
+++ b/dir.props
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
   <!-- Common nuget properties -->
   <PropertyGroup>
+    <NuGetDir>$(PackagesDir)</NuGetDir>
     <NuGetToolPath>$(PackagesDir)NuGet.exe</NuGetToolPath>
     <NuGetConfigFile>$(SourceDir).nuget$([System.IO.Path]::DirectorySeparatorChar)NuGet.Config</NuGetConfigFile>
     <NuGetConfigCommandLine>-ConfigFile "$(NuGetConfigFile)"</NuGetConfigCommandLine>
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@
     <NugetRestoreCommand>$(NugetRestoreCommand) install</NugetRestoreCommand>
     <NugetRestoreCommand>$(NugetRestoreCommand) -OutputDirectory "$(PackagesDir.TrimEnd('\/'.ToCharArray()))"</NugetRestoreCommand>
     <NugetRestoreCommand>$(NugetRestoreCommand) $(NuGetConfigCommandLine)</NugetRestoreCommand>
+    <NugetRestoreCommand Condition="'$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">mono $(NuGetRestoreCommand)</NugetRestoreCommand>
   </PropertyGroup>
   
   <!-- Set default Configuration and Platform -->
diff --git a/dir.targets b/dir.targets
index 713df4de08e..9e888718577 100644
--- a/dir.targets
+++ b/dir.targets
@@ -47,10 +47,11 @@
           Inputs="$(MSBuildThisFileFullPath);$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)dir.props"
           Outputs="$(ToolsDir)Microsoft.DotNet.Build.Tasks.dll;$(NugetToolPath)">
 
-    <!-- Download latest nuget.exe -->
     <DownloadFile FileName="$(NuGetToolPath)"
                   Address="http://nuget.org/nuget.exe" 
-                  Condition="!Exists('$(NuGetToolPath)')" />
+                  Condition="!Exists('$(NuGetToolPath)') AND '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT'" />
+
+    <Exec Command="curl -sSL --create-dirs -s -o $(NuGetToolPath) https://api.nuget.org/downloads/nuget.exe" Condition="!Exists('$(NuGetToolPath)') AND '$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'" />
 
     <!-- Restore build tools -->
     <!-- 
@@ -61,4 +62,4 @@
            Text="The build tools package was just restored and so we cannot continue the build of an individual project because targets from the build tools package were not able to be imported. Please retry the build the individual project again." />
   </Target>
 
-</Project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</Project>