Today when I use :checkhealth to check if there are anything wrong with my
Neovim and related packages. I got an info that Python neovim
package is not up to date. So I tried to
update neovim with pip install --upgrade neovim. This is the start of a
disaster which wastes me several hours.
After the upgrade, when I open Neovim, it complains:
UltiSnips requires py >= 2.7 or py3
I add the following setting in my init.vim:
let g:python3_host_prog='/home/jdhao/tools/anaconda3/bin/python'
The above warning message disappears. Each time I open nvim, I see the error message:
[deoplete] deoplete failed to load. Try the :UpdateRemotePlugins command and restart Neovim. See also :checkhealth.
I follow the guide and use :UpdateRemotePlugins command. Then I got another
error message:
function remote#host#UpdateRemotePlugins[6]..<SNR>36_RegistrationCommands[15]..remote#host#Require[10]..provider#pythonx#Require[13]..provider#Poll, line 4
Vim(if):ch 3 was closed by the client
function remote#host#UpdateRemotePlugins[6]..<SNR>36_RegistrationCommands[15]..remote#host#Require[10]..provider#pythonx#Require[13]..provider#Poll, line 14
Failed to load python3 host. You can try to see what happened by starting nvim with $NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_FILE set and opening the generated log file. Also, the host stderr is available in messages.
remote/host: generated rplugin manifest: /home/jdhao/.local/share/nvim/rplugin.vim
I may also get the error message:
function remote#host#UpdateRemotePlugins[6]..<SNR>36_RegistrationCommands[15]..remote#host#Require[10]..provider#pythonx#Require[13]..provider#Poll, line 4
Vim(if):ch 3 was closed by the client
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'neovim'
function remote#host#UpdateRemotePlugins[6]..<SNR>36_RegistrationCommands[15]..remote#host#Require[10]..provider#pythonx#Require[13]..provider#Poll, line 14
Failed to load python3 host. You can try to see what happened by starting nvim with $NVIM_PYTHON_LOG_FILE set and opening the generated log file. Also, the host stderr is available in messages.
remote/host: generated rplugin manifest: /home/jdhao/.local/share/nvim/rplugin.vim
In fact, neovim is already installed and conda list|grep neovim shows:
neovim 0.3.1
I tried to unistall neovim and reinstall:
pip uninstall neovim
pip install neovim
# or pip install --no-cache-dir neovim
and the error was not gone. Installing the neovim package under user directory also does not work:
# does not work
pip install --user neovim
Why is neovim package not found but pip reports that neovim is installed? When
I go to $ANACONDA_ROOT/Lib/site-packages, ls neovim* only shows the neovim
egg/wheel info directory. There is acutually no package installed. That is the
reason why neovim pacakge is not found.
Finally, I decided to do a complete uninstall and reinstall neovim. By complete uninstall, I mean to remove all dependency packages installed along with neovim. These dependency packages are:
pynvim
msgpack
greenlet
After uninstalling these packages and reinstall neovim with pip install --no-cache-dir neovim, the error finally disappeared:
pip uninstall -y neovim pynvim msgpack greenlet
pip install neovim
Now, ls|grep neovim command in Anaconda Python site package directory shows:
205:neovim/ 206:neovim-0.3.1.dist-info/
So the neovim Python client is successfully installed. Now open neovim and use
issue UpdateRemotePlugins command, you will see:
remote/host: python3 host registered plugins ['deoplete']
remote/host: generated rplugin manifest: /home/jdhao/.local/share/nvim/rplugin.vim
Restart Neovim and the error message will disappear. You will be able to use autocompletion again.