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Installing extensions through command line (--install-extension) stopped working, installs ms-python instead

See original GitHub issue

Installing extensions with code-server --install-extension command line seems to be broken since yesterday.

~ (:|✔)~$ ls ~/ext-test                                 
~ (:|✔)~$ ./Downloads/code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-linux-x86_64\ \(1\)/code-server2.1698-vsc1.41.1-linux-x86_64/code-server --extensions-dir ~/ext-test --install-extension=redhat.vscode-yaml
Installing extensions...
Installing extension 'redhat.vscode-yaml' v2020.2.64397...
Extension 'redhat.vscode-yaml' v2020.2.64397 was successfully installed.
~ (:|✔)~$ ls ~/ext-test                                                                                                                                                                      
ms-python.python-2020.2.64397
~ (:|✔)~$ rm -r ~/ext-test/ms-python.python-2020.2.64397 
~ (:|✔)~$ ls ~/ext-test                                 
~ (:|✔)~$ ./Downloads/code-server-3.0.0-linux-x86_64/code-server --extensions-dir ~/ext-test --install-extension=redhat.vscode-yaml
Installing extensions...
Installing extension 'redhat.vscode-yaml' v2020.3.69010...
Extension 'redhat.vscode-yaml' v2020.3.69010 was successfully installed.
~ (:|✔)~$ ls ~/ext-test                                                                                                            
ms-python.python-2020.3.69010
~ (:|✔)~$

As you can see above, it doesn’t work in both recent versions 1698-vsc1.41.1 and 3.0.0. Particular extension doesn’t matter, it always installs ms-python instead. Even installing extensions from .vsix files has stopped working, however the correct files appear in extensions directory but code-server doesn’t detect them. It would be cool if installing from .vsix files wouldn’t rely on such external dependencies.

Funny thing is that installing from .vsix seems to be working with internet connection turned off, so it looks like a problem with some external API request. Market place maybe?

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:6
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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kylecarbscommented, Mar 24, 2020

We’ve reverted some extension marketplace changes. Sorry about that, we’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again!

1reaction

benz0licommented, Mar 29, 2020

Just found out that the problem is not related to Code Server at all: Version 1.3.0 of jupyter-server-proxy doesn’t seem to work properly with extensions.

I’ve pinned jupyter-server-proxy to version 1.2.0 in my Jupyter installation and everything is working properly again.

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