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Bassie
Bassie

Reputation: 10400

Unable to Install Visual Studio Code Extensions

I raised this as an issue on the VSCode github

I just installed Visual Studio Code to try it out, but I ran into a problem almost immediately when trying to install any extension (following this).

After pressing ctrl + p or F1 and then typing Extension and selecting Install, the program appears to search for a while. However, after a few seconds to a minute I see this error:

Error getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND marketplace.visualstudio.com marketplace.visualstudio.com:443

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And if I click out of the window before this message appears:

Error socket hang up

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Has anyone else seen the same error and managed to overcome?

As mentioned in the comments, this seems to be discussed here. However, I can't apply any of the suggested fixes:

Upvotes: 9

Views: 69013

Answers (8)

sourav pandit
sourav pandit

Reputation: 9135

If you have not set any proxy Or might have issue with credentials

// file : settings.json
{
// comment below line or change according to your credentials 
// "http.proxy": "http://username:password@hostname:port/",
"http.proxyAuthorization": null,
// make it false
"http.proxyStrictSSL": false,
 }

Upvotes: 0

Oluwatimilehin
Oluwatimilehin

Reputation: 1

I once had this experience. Uninstall and reinstalling/updating Vs code simply fixed the error. https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Upvotes: 0

tunaSD
tunaSD

Reputation: 1

I was getting the message that 'error while installing extension..' in Visual Studio Code. I solved it by following these steps

1- Go to Environment Variables > System Variables 2- Click on Path 3- Click on New 4- Paste the location of the Visual Studio Code (For me it is C:\Users\PC\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code) 5- Click OK

Hope, it will fix the problem.

Upvotes: 0

CharithJ
CharithJ

Reputation: 47570

I had to remove defaultproxy from devenv.exe.config to get rid of forbidden 403 error.

Deleting this section from devenv.exe.config sorted my issue.

    <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
        <proxy bypassonlocal="True" proxyaddress=xxxxx/>
    </defaultProxy>

C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.xxxxx \devenv.exe.config

Upvotes: 0

pasujemito
pasujemito

Reputation: 332

You need to enable http.proxySupport so your WSL instance can talk over proxy

CTRL+SHIFT+P or CMD+SHIFT+P

Find: Preferences: Open Settings JSON and add the following line to your settings:

"http.proxySupport": "on"

you may also need to change your DNS in /etc/resolv.conf:

sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

and change the nameserver to:

nameserver: 8.8.8.8

Et Voila!

Upvotes: 0

Ehab Al-Qabbani
Ehab Al-Qabbani

Reputation: 97

change DNSs to (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)

Upvotes: 7

Sridhar Srinivasan
Sridhar Srinivasan

Reputation: 69

Firstly, make sure if you have installed any extensions before (by typing @installed in the extensions panel) if haven't installed anything yet try deleting all the files this location C:\Users\SYS_NAME.vscode\extensions. Restart the vscode.

Upvotes: 0

Bassie
Bassie

Reputation: 10400

I was able to install some extensions after my network admin disabled SSL Inspection on my machine.

This is not ideal as I wouldn't want this turned off for everything.

After re-enabling inspection, I set my User Settings to

"http.proxyStrictSSL": true

I am still unable to download packages, but this does appear to be the problem.

Upvotes: 4

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