Linux: Can't find bash-language-server on your PATH.

[lamyergeier]

OS: Ubuntu 18.04

I have installed the language server as follows

npm install -g bash-language-server --verbose

npm info it worked if it ends with ok
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Path:

$ type bash-language-server
bash-language-server is /home/nikhil/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.0/bin/bash-language-server

VS Code settings.json

  "bashIde.path": "/home/nikhil/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.0/bin/bash-language-server",

---

But I keep getting this error:

Can't find bash-language-server on your PATH. Please install it using "npm i -g bash-language-server".

[dskad]

I just ran into this!

If you updated your version of nodejs since installing bash-language-server, you might need to rebuild the extension or one of it's supporting extensions. You can see the error if you run bash-language-server from the command line.

Make sure everything is up to date with
npm update -g

If you still see an error, you can rebuild your extensions with
npm rebuild -g

[lamyergeier]

It didn't help me. I did the following

$ npm update -g
$ npm rebuild -g
$ bash-language-server start

But nothing happens, there is no output and no error, the cursor keeps blinking.

I just ran into this!

If you updated your version of nodejs since installing bash-language-server, you might need to rebuild the extension or one of it's supporting extensions. You can see the error if you run bash-language-server from the command line.

Make sure everything is up to date with
npm update -g

If you still see an error, you can rebuild your extensions with
npm rebuild -g

[virgilwashere]

@anishmittal2020 are you running Windows and WSL Ubuntu?

I am, and I was having the same experience. My integrated terminal is set to WSL bash, with nvm/npm enabled.

Until I saw this comment in Issue #41.

Ran from my home directory, not project workspace.

~$ nvm use --lts
Now using node v10.15.3 (npm v6.4.1)
~$ npm i -g bash-language-server tree-sitter tree-sitter-bash --unsafe-perm
....
~$ which bash-language-server
/home/virgil/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/bash-language-server

[skovhus]

@anishmittal2020 did you figure it out?

[ctranxuan]

Hi,
I have the same issue on a Ubuntu 18.4: VS Code is installed as a snap.
Is it supported through snap?

[scalavision]

Would it be possible to add a config property to point to the path of bash-language-server in vscode?

I am no NixOS and I also have this problem.

I have no problem starting the language server manually ..

[skovhus]

Would it be possible to add a config property to point to the path of bash-language-server in vscode?

It is already there as bashIde.path. Can you try that out?

[GaurangTandon]

Hi @skovhus , I have the same issue (Ubuntu 18.04; code 1.34.0).
I set the bashIde.path: "/home/gt/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/bash-language-server".
I have tried several intended workarounds, including the one of installing all three dependencies simultaneously, however, none of them has worked for me. I can start the language server from the terminal successfully.

[vmfhrmfoaj]

Hi @anishmittal2020, First over all, I use Gentoo and ASDF, so there may be slight difference in between my case and your case.

I didn't add bin directory of ASDF to PATH variable globally (So, VS Code process(i.e. instance) do not know where is bash-language-server.), and I have set bashIde.path to /home/USER/.asdf/shims/bash-language-server.

/home/USER/.asdf/installs/nodejs/10.16.0/.npm/bin/bash-language-server:

#!/usr/bin/env node
...

I think, due to #!/usr/bin/env node, VS Code use system(i.e. global) nodejs instead of local nodejs. Because the environment variable of VS Code process not has information of local nodejs.

I added bin directory of ASDF into PATH in .profile, then the problem is solved.
(I think Xorg load .profile file.)

[Abhinav1217]

Hi, I was going to open same issue but I saw this to I better chip in here.

I am using Solus OS and am having same issue. I initially installed bash-langage-server using yarn global add bash-language-server, It didn't work even though I have the yarn bin in my path. I manually configured "bashIde.path": "$HOME/.yarn/bin/bash-langage-server" and then replaced $HOME with /home/abhinav just to be sure.
Then I removed it from yarn entirely, used npm, and followed same steps. I even made sure my system is up to date.

I am still getting same popup, that bash-language-server is not found on my PATH.

I was hoping that at manually setting the path should work but it doesn't. I can't understand why.

[skovhus]

If you open a shell and run which bash-language-server, what is the output? If it isn’t there, then you are having trouble installing it. If it is there, then we cannot find it in vs code due to path issues.

[lamyergeier]

@skovhus For me the problem got solved eventually (may be due to the updates that you might have made). I am using:

$ bash-language-server --version
Version is 1.5.6