[SOLVED] Terminal in VS Code can't find Cargo

[bifferos]

I've created my first small Rust program tonight. After trying PyCharm with a Rust plugin, I decided to try VS Code to see if that was any better. I've installed rust-analyzer, and opened my project folder, but it appears to have run into a problem.

It says:

[ERROR rust_analyzer::main_loop] FetchWorkspaceError:
rust-analyzer failed to load workspace: cd "/home/biff/rx_test" && "cargo" "--version" failed: No such file or directory (os error 2)

And when I go to the TERMINAL tab, sure enough cargo is not there. But outside the terminal it works fine.

Inside the terminal I can see only a portion of the commands that my user can normally see in /usr/bin.

This is from the VS code terminal:

sh-5.1$ ls -l /usr/bin | wc
   1064    9747   70885

This is from a normal terminal under Linux Mint:

$ ls -l /usr/bin | wc
   2244   21117  142492

When I look at the files inside that terminal they appear to have been virtualised somehow:

-rwxr-xr-x  5 nfsnobody nfsnobody     1842 Dec 23 18:06  zmore
-rwxr-xr-x  5 nfsnobody nfsnobody     4577 Dec 23 18:06  znew
-rwxr-xr-x  4 nfsnobody nfsnobody   125976 Dec 23 18:06  zramctl
-rwxr-xr-x  4 nfsnobody nfsnobody   914456 Dec 23 18:06  zstd
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nfsnobody nfsnobody        4 Jan 29 22:30  zstdcat -> zstd
-rwxr-xr-x  5 nfsnobody nfsnobody     3869 Dec 23 18:06  zstdgrep
-rwxr-xr-x  5 nfsnobody nfsnobody       30 Dec 23 18:06  zstdless
lrwxrwxrwx  1 nfsnobody nfsnobody        4 Jan 29 22:30  zstdmt -> zstd

(outside that terminal they are owned by root).

So my question is how do I 'inject' cargo into that environment?

I'm running Linux Mint BTW.

thanks for any assistance.

[HJVT]

How did you install VSCode?

[bifferos]

Linux mint software manager

[HJVT]

It seems that the package for vscode offered in the official mint repos is sandboxed using flatpak.

[bifferos]

Yes, that makes a lot of sense now. I'll try the official DEB.

Edit: Working much better now, many thanks for the swift response.