# Could not start Julia Server VSCode in WSL2

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** vscode, wsl2\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542 "2022-09-21T04:22:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eduardo_pacheco/32/22918_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eduardo_Pacheco)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/1 "2022-09-21T04:22:42Z")

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I installed Julia 1.8.1 using WSL2 as explained [here](https://julialang.org/downloads/platform/) and added it to my PATH

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/1/5131c5bd8871245bfde160abd1c83e0a42454296.png)

After that I’ve installed Julia Extension and created a new project I got error message `Could not start the Julia Language Server’.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/7/b7a6231384792f62564ad33fe6695e52b16ed232.png)

If I click the open settings it doesn’t find the julia.executablePath setting, nonetheless after adding the path to that specific setting, also added to julia.environmentPath, in the settings.json nothing has happened. (my in WSL path is ~/julia-1.8.1/bin/julia)

Does anyone have an idea of what could be happening?

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**Author:** ![jmair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jmair/32/35117_2.png) [@jmair](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmair)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/2 "2022-09-21T08:54:04Z")

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Possibly try using the fully qualified path, instead of `~` for home, that may help?

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/3 "2022-09-21T09:17:07Z")

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Are you using the remote extension for WSL? I don’t think this is expected to work without that.

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**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eduardo_pacheco/32/22918_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eduardo_Pacheco)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/4 "2022-09-21T12:55:34Z")

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Yes, I’m using it

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**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eduardo_pacheco/32/22918_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Pacheco](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eduardo_Pacheco)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/5 "2022-09-21T13:02:56Z")

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Yeah, that actually made it work. Now I can start a REPL and run code as usual, but for some reason Julia extension is not showing up in the sidebar.

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**Author:** ![jmair](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jmair/32/35117_2.png) [@jmair](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jmair)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-start-julia-server-vscode-in-wsl2/87542/6 "2022-09-21T17:22:02Z")

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It may be hidden, if you right click on the side bar there may be an option. Otherwise:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/c/1c30b388bc3ddd53e53968acc169c4163ffe3c2b.png)  
In the command palette (`Ctrl+Shift+P`) ^^