Cannot print to browser because of missing file or directory.

[RetroAnkit]

I'm using Linux and after clicking on print, I got this error in browser:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/node_modules/highlight.js/styles/default.css'
	at Object.openSync (fs.js:476:3)
	at Object.func [as openSync] (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:1846)
	at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:377:35)
	at Object.e.readFileSync (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:8872)
	at T (/home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:908842)
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:906535
	at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:900819
	at new Promise (<anonymous>)
	at a (/home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:900564)
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:905132
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:908481
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:904309
	at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
	at /home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:900819
	at new Promise (<anonymous>)
	at a (/home/pc/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:900564)
	at Server.<anonymous> (/home/ankit/.vscode-oss/extensions/pdconsec.vscode-print-0.9.8/dist/extension.js:2:904074)
	at Server.emit (events.js:315:20)
	at parserOnIncoming (_http_server.js:874:12)
	at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:126:17)

[PeterWone]

The error clearly states what is missing and where it should be. This raises two questions:

• Why isn't it there?
• What can you do about it?

Why isn't it there?

• The installation was incomplete even though the missing files are in the VSIX file (I checked).
• You're not using VS Code, you're using a non-standard fork of it which I can tell by the name of the folder /home/pc/.vscode-oss
• You're using an obsolete version of the extension. This is probably because your non-standard build of VS Code uses this site https://open-vsx.org/extension/pdconsec/vscode-print which is always well behind the curve.

How on Earth can anyone mess up a one click install? This is an interesting question (you aren't the first). Possibly by using a non-standard version of VS Code?

What can you do about it?

This isn't a failure of the extension, vscode-oss has failed to install the dependencies shipped in the VSIX. Here's the thing: it's designed and tested and it works just fine with the installer in Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Not the various forks. Non-standard versions of VS Code make up such a tiny portion of the user base that I cannot give this kind of installer problem priority over standard installations.

Perhaps you could raise an installer issue on the code-oss repository

In the short term, how can you patch your own setup?

• Check whether that path exists, starting with /home/pc/.vscode-oss
• If the path is valid then add the files yourself.

VSIX files are just zip files. If you rename one and look inside you will find this

which contains this

[matkoniecz]

How on Earth can anyone mess up a one click install? This is an interesting question (you aren't the first). Possibly by using a non-standard version of VS Code?

yep, I use VSCodium that apparently is causing some issues

Perhaps you could raise an installer issue on the code-oss repository

Done! VSCodium/vscodium#928

In the short term, how can you patch your own setup?

In my case entire node_modules was missing.

It is also missing from VSIX file at https://open-vsx.org/extension/pdconsec/vscode-print

It is not missing from VSIX file at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pdconsec.vscode-print