tree-sitter-cli binary on Solus?

laxman20

I am using neovim 0.12.1 with the nvim-treesitter plugin (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter).

This plugin requires the tree-sitter binary which doesn't seem to be provided by the tree-sitter package in Solus.

Steps to reproduce:
install neovim 0.12+

Add the following config in ~/.config/nvim/init.lua to install the nvim-treesitter plugin

vim.pack.add({
	{ src = 'https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', version = 'main' },
})

After installing the plugin execute "checkhealth nvim-treesitter" within Neovim.

You will get the following error

- ❌ ERROR tree-sitter-cli not found

Clintre

We have the tree-sitter package which according to the tree-sitter-cli git which has been archived is now part of tree-sitter.

You could try sudo eopkg it tree-sitter

laxman20

Clintre yup I verified this package is installed but there is no tree-sitter binary in the PATH.

I think reason might be that tree-sitter-cli was moved into tree-sitter in v0.26.0 and the version in the repo is older

Clintre

Could you open a request for tree-sitter to be updated? Just go here, select new issue, and "Request a package to be updated".

laxman20

Done. https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/8612

Thank you!

Clintre

laxman20 Just checking in to see if this worked for you.

Thanks

laxman20

Clintre

Unfortunately not completely. The updated package didn't have tree-sitter-cli. I had to download the pre-compiled binary from the tree-sitter repo and add it to my path to resolve this.

(I also had to install gcc and binutils for tree-sitter-cli to function correctly)

I was curious what other distributions were doing. Fedora includes tree-sitter-cli in their package. Arch Linux has a separate package for it. OpenSUSE doesn't include it (similar situation to Solus).

Clintre

Thanks for the feedback.

The good news is that we do now have it separated out as well in Unstable, thanks to @GZGavinZhao . So when we do our sync it will be available.