Latex Workshop Extension not working

[jpaczia]

Describe the bug
The LaTeX Workshop extension is currently not working in VS Codium. The extension symbol is not showing, other extensions are working as expected.

Please confirm that this problem is VSCodium-specific

• This bug doesn't happen if I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It only happens in VSCodium.

Please confirm that the issue/resolution isn't already documented

• I checked the Docs page and my issue is not mentioned there.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install the extension: Press Ctrl + P and enter ext install James-Yu.latex-workshop
2. Open a .tex file, an example file can be found here
3. Try to build the document, using the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + b
   (to check if you have all latex packages this can also be done via the terminal, e.g. with pdflatex [NAME].tex)
4. See error "command 'latex-workshop.build' not found" in the right bottom corner

Expected behavior
The latex document is compiled into an output format, e.g. a PDF file.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu and Kubuntu 20.04
• Architecture x86_64
• Version 1.48.1

Additional context
This issue might be relevant.

[GeQi]

I've being using the extension with VS Codium without issue. Seems there are related issues in the extension's repo (e.g. James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop#469).

[jpaczia]

Yes, there are related issues.
However this seems to be VSCodium specific, since the extension is working with VS Code.
I was also able to use this extension with an older version of VSCodium, but with version 1.48.1 the extension does not work.
According to this issue the extension does not work because of VSCodium.

Which versions of VSCodium and the extension are you using @GeQi ?

[GeQi]

@jpaczia I'm using the latest version indeed. However my extension was installed way before any changes was made to the marketplace, so likely that is the source of the issue.

[indierodo]

Hello!

Error message in developer tools.

abstractExtensionService.ts:411 Activating extension 'James-Yu.latex-workshop' failed: Cannot find module '/home/rodo/.vscode-oss/extensions/james-yu.latex-workshop-8.11.1/out/src/main.js'
Require stack:
- /usr/share/codium/resources/app/out/vs/loader.js
- /usr/share/codium/resources/app/out/bootstrap-amd.js
- /usr/share/codium/resources/app/out/bootstrap-fork.js.

The out folder does not exist in ~/.vscode-oss/extensions/james-yu.latex-workshop-8.11.1

Workaround

This downloads the latest release from GitHub and replaces the extension. Of course, it is not a clean way of solving the issue, but it works.
After installing the extension from marketplace, close codium. Open a terminal and run this:

cd ~/.vscode-oss/extensions
rm -r james-yu.latex-workshop-8.11.1
wget https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/archive/v8.11.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf v8.11.1.tar.gz
rm v8.11.1.tar.gz
mv LaTeX-Workshop-8.11.1 james-yu.latex-workshop-8.11.1
cd james-yu.latex-workshop-8.11.1
npm install && npm run compile

So this may be an issue with the marketplace. I don't know how it works, so I can't say for sure.

[stripedpajamas]

Per this comment the issue is that the extension itself on OpenVSX is missing files / corrupt. Nothing we can do (thanks for the workaround @indierodo). Either publisher needs to update OpenVSX version of the extension, or OpenVSX themselves can possibly do it.

[jpaczia]

The issue has been reported and fixed here.

[drepram]

Hi, I basically ran LaTeX Workshop: Build LaTeX Project, and then it updates itself. Now the features are working well.

[DavideRossi]

The issue is still open for me (codium 1.60.0 and latex workshop 8.20.2). I had to follow the workaround by @indierodo to get it working.
I also tried the workaround by @drepram but it did not work for me.

[daiyam]

@DavideRossi This is an issue of OpenVSX which has publish a broken version. (I've checked files are missing). I would encourage you to encourage the author of the extension to publish directly the extension.
In the meantimes, you can download the vsix from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop and install it manually.

[daiyam]

I've opened the issue: James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop#2865

[daiyam]

Sorry guys, that extension is officially not supported on VSCodium. I wanted to ask why but I can't... no very open to discussion.
The alternative is that somebody makes a fork and maintains it for OpenVSX.

[DavideRossi]

I'm sorry to turn this issue into a chat, but can't we just report the issue to maintainer at OpenVSX? Since this is a recurring issue maybe they are willing to look into it.

[daiyam]

@DavideRossi You can, they have done so before. But, since it seems to be recurring issue, I wanted the devs of the extension to maintain it themself since it's easy to do so.
I find it funny that a LaTeX extension doesn't want to be maintained on alternative editors since I'm associating it to Linux.