Error "end of central directory record signature not found" while installing ionide-fsharp in vscode

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ronilk picture ronilk · Jan 8, 2017 · Viewed 13.1k times · Source

I have installed VS Code version 1.8.1. Machine is Windows 7, 64 bit. While installing ionide-fsharp extension, I am getting error "end of central directory record signature not found". It seems version 1.7.2 of VS Code works, however this issue probably seems fixed for version 1.8.0 see this git link. Any idea on how to get the extn installed?

Thanks

Answer

ronilk picture ronilk · Jan 9, 2017

Found a workaround for this. Downloaded '.vsix' file of ionide-fs from this link. In VS Code Extensions tab, there is an option 'Install from VSIX'. That worked. So in case anyone is unable to install from vscode extensions tab directly(i.e. from Marketplace), they may try this way of installing an extension.

Just for information, I was getting the same error for version 1.7.2 of vscode as well while trying to install from Marketplace.

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