Cannot install extensions in visual Studio code

Question

I am an user of Arch Linux and my problem is that I am unable to install extensions. I followed the Microsoft pages which says that I should click ctrl+P and then write ext install (package what I'm looking for) so I did that.

After clicking "install extension" nothing happend that is why I tried several times with other extensions with no success. The bar "install" has shown but when I clicked on it nothing happend as well. My visual-studio-code was installed via aur Visual-Studio-Code aur page.

I do not think it is connected with installation of visual-studio-code. I will be really thankful for a help with installation of extansions. Sadly no errors where shown in other way I would put it there down here. Please forgive me my english. I am not a native.

Answer 1

It looks like VS Code is not installed for being used as admin in linux, and it means that by default the extensions folder doesn't have permissions to write, so when a user tries to install specific extension, it's not allowed.

What I did was the following, but you can modify the permissions as you prefer:

sudo chmod 777 -R $HOME/.vscode/extensions/

I hope it helps to some linux users.

Answer 2

After it failed in the gui, I was able to install it with the code command line option.

code --install-extension lukehoban.Go

This is not a definitive answer, just "it worked for me."

For OS X users who have this issue, install code here: How to open Visual Studio Code from the command line on OSX?

Answer 3

I think the right combination is Ctrl + Shift + P, or Ctrl + P but you have to type >.

Answer 4

It is really strange but after few reboots I successfully installed extansion. I did not know what caused the problem, but it works fine now.