E319: No "python3" provider found. How can I solve this problem on SSH environment

Question

I am using university SSH, and I am trying to use Neovim.

However, it keeps saying that E319: No "python3" provider found. whenever I am trying to edit my code using Neovim.

I am not a sudoer.

How can I handle this problem?

I've tried python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pynvim, however, it says that module pip is not installed in /usr/bin/python3 directory.

Answer 1

In my case for the Neovim helps this:

python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pynvim

Answer 2

There are a lot of ways to install python modules, and using sudo to pip install things is NOT recommended.

However, sometimes there are packages that are maintained by the community. I would try: apt install python3-neovim

This should put the neovim python module in the place that neovim is expecting, as opposed to using --user or using pipx

Good luck!

Answer 3

how can I handle this problem?

While @voortuck provides one workaround, which may/may not work, depending on whether neovim's python bindings are in pypi, a more straightforward way is to build your own neovim, provided you have the prerequisites.

Answer 4

$ pip3 install --user --upgrade neovim

also learn about neovim-remote

Answer 5

I fixed similar issue when few Python 3 versions were installed.

Solution: install neovim for all Python 3 versions that raise an error when executing command:

:checkhealth provider

inside neovim.

What I have done and it helps:

python3.10 -m pip install --user pynvim
python3.9 -m pip install --user pynvim

Answer 6

I had the same issue, neovim was using /opt/homebrew/bin/python3

So instead of just doing

pip3 install --user --upgrade neovim

I needed to do

/opt/homebrew/bin/pip3 install --user --upgrade neovim