my experience with running vs code (or any IDE) from flatpak

[Muayyad AlSadi]

the error was

Error spawning PHP: Command failed: /run/host/usr/bin/php --version
/run/host/usr/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries:
libargon2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sh-4.3$ /run/host/usr/bin/php --version
/run/host/usr/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries:
libargon2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 6:35 PM Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I've installed vs code from
>
> https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss
>
> I've noticed that it run inside a container with minimal os
> while the host is mounted on /run/host/
>
> 1. although the minimal os has bash, it uses sh by default
> 2. many extensions did not work due to problems with host tools
>
> for example:
> Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat
> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.java
>
> PHP IntelliSense
>
> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felixfbecker.php-intellisense
>
> SonarSource SonarQube
> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SonarSource.sonarqube
>
>
> and maybe eslint (not sure)
>
> for example java is not working because in host they are symbolic links
>
> [alsadi at laptop ~]$ ls -lh /etc/alternatives/java
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 72 Feb  5 16:11 /etc/alternatives/java ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b13-0.fc28.x86_64/jre/bin/java
> [alsadi at laptop ~]$ ls -lh /usr/lib/jvm/
> total 76K
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   26 Feb  5 16:08 java ->
> /etc/alternatives/java_sdk
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   21 Feb  5 16:11 jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre
> ...
>
> those links would become broken inside the container
>
> sh-4.3$ ls -lh /run/host/usr/bin/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 22 Feb  5 16:11 /run/host/usr/bin/java ->
> /etc/alternatives/java
> sh-4.3$ ls -lh /etc/alternatives/java
> ls: cannot access '/etc/alternatives/java': No such file or directory
> sh-4.3$ ls -lh /run/host/etc/alternatives/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nfsnobody nfsnobody 72 Feb  5 16:11
> /run/host/etc/alternatives/java ->
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b13-0.fc28.x86_64/jre/bin/java
>
> and manually setting to did not seem to work
>
>     "java.home":
> "/run/host/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b13-0.fc28.x86_64/",
>     "sonarlint.ls.javaHome":
> "/run/host/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.191.b12-11.fc28.x86_64/jre/"
>
> so with php
>
> PHP executable not found. Install PHP 7 and add it to your PATH or set the
> php.executablePath setting
>
> I guess there is a way to define a read-only overlay/union between the
> minimal container and host? can I choose host? do I have to configure all
> those pathes?
>
>
>
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