I cannot install package because 'packpath' was not found

[Antonio-Scarface]

Error executing C:\Users\Windows\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim: line 200: E919: Directory not found in 'packpath': "pack/*/opt/doki-theme"

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Huh, I'll assume you are on windows 10 trying to use neovim.

You think you can start from scratch? Here is what I did.

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1. Downloaded the windows zip from here https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.7.0
2. Extracted the file contents in the C:\Program Files\Neovim folder
3. Added C:\Program Files\Neovim to the environment variable PATH
4. Ran nvim in a command prompt and run the editor command :echo stdpath('config')
5. Create the directories if they don't already exist.
6. Install vim-plug using windows powershell.
7. Add a init.vim in the directory you got from step 4.
8. Add this in your init.vim

   
   call plug#begin()
   " The default plugin directory will be as follows:
   "   - Vim (Linux/macOS): '~/.vim/plugged'
   "   - Vim (Windows): '~/vimfiles/plugged'
   "   - Neovim (Linux/macOS/Windows): stdpath('data') . '/plugged'
   " You can specify a custom plugin directory by passing it as the argument
   "   - e.g. `call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')`
   "   - Avoid using standard Vim directory names like 'plugin'

" Make sure you use single quotes

" Shorthand notation; fetches https://github.com/doki-theme/doki-theme-vim Plug 'doki-theme/doki-theme-vim'

" Initialize plugin system call plug#end()

9. (Close NeoVim) Open up `nvim` again and run `:PlugInstall` 
10. One complete, you can run `:colorscheme ` command and that should have tab completion
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15972415/164114627-507316cc-c527-452c-8edc-8214b66d2010.png)
11. ???
12. profit

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Let me know if that works, and I can add it to the docs.

[Antonio-Scarface]

No, it doesn't work... It gives me always the same output Despite this, I already have some config files of nvim on my pc so I didn't reinstalled Neovim (so maybe for someone it could work) Reading ur comment, I found that the only thing that I didn't was adding the config directory to PATH environment, so I did it, but I didn't resolve the problem, as I said at the beginning of the comment So... have u got some other ideas?? Pls tell me soon

[Antonio-Scarface]

Btw, I got that menu when I write :colorscheme + ctrl + D, but change only the colors of the words... the error remains and the background remain the default one

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directory to PATH environment, so I did it, but I didn't resolve the problem, as I said at the beginning of the comment

Yeah all that does is as nvim to your cmd prompt, so that wouldn't fix it.

So... have u got some other ideas??

I considering you didn't do any of the things that I told you try, and you haven't told me how you configured your neovim or even how you tried to install the plugin, your guess is as good as mine as to what is wrong 😃

I would start by undoing whatever you did to install the plugin (before submitting this issue) and attempt to install doki-theme vim using vim-plug (I referenced that in my first comment).

Btw, I got that menu when I write :colorscheme + ctrl + D, but change only the colors of the words... the error remains

Are you saying you have the doki-theme-vim colors in the drop down (eg aqua, astolfo, etc)?

background remain the default one

That's a feature of doki-theme-hyper.

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I'm going to close this issue because it isn't an issue with the plugin itself, but an issue with your local installation. If you need any additional help, please provide information on how you attempted to install this plugin, how your neovim manages plugins, any configurtion you've updated, because otherwise I can't be of much help, other than saying "I dunno, it works on my machine 🤷"

[Antonio-Scarface]

are you saying you have the doki-theme-vim colors in the drop down (eg aqua, astolfo, etc)?

[Antonio-Scarface]

Yes I have, but only colours.. not as ur background of 02... i see that u have just neovim so the background should be the doki-theme one

[Antonio-Scarface]

here is my init.vim file

set encoding=utf-8
set termguicolors
set scrolloff=7
set autoindent
set noswapfile
set winblend=0

set wildoptions=pum
set background=dark

syntax enable
call plug#begin('C:/Users/Windows/AppData/Local/nvim/autoload/plugged')
Plug 'https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'https://gitlab.com/debyly/iodide-vim-communicator.git'
Plug '/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', {'do': ':TSUpdate'}
Plug 'glepnir/lspsaga.nvim'
Plug 'https://github.com/doki-theme/doki-theme-vim'
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'leafgarland/typescript-vim'
Plug 'vim-utils/vim-man'
Plug 'mbbill/undotree'
Plug 'https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim'
Plug 'preservim/nerdcommenter'
Plug 'jaxbot/semantic-highlight.vim'
Plug 'roxma/nvim-completion-manager'
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips'
Plug 'EdenEast/nightfox.nvim'
Plug 'https://github.com/doomemacs/themes'
Plug 'honza/vim-snippets'
Plug 'https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim', {'branch': 'master', 'do': 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile'}
_here goes some configuration of coc.nvim (but this is not the problem_
call plug#end()
let NERDtTreeQuitOnOpen=1
let NERDTreeMinimalUI=1

packadd! doki-theme
syntax enable
colorscheme rias_crimson

[Antonio-Scarface]

here is my plug.vim file

if has("nvim")
        let g:plug_home = stdpath('data') . '/.plugged'
endif

call plug#begin()

Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'tpope/vim-rhubarb'
Plug 'cohama/lexima.vim'

if has("nvim")
        Plug '/neovim/nvim-lspconfig'
        Plug 'glepnir/lspsaga.nvim'
        Plug 'nvim-lua/completion-nvim'
        Plug '/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', {'do': ':TSUpdate'}
endif

call plug#end()

let g:plug_home = stdpath("data") . "/plugged"

call plug#begin(plug_home)

[Antonio-Scarface]

Here is my directory:

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Change your plug.vim file to look like this:

if has("nvim")
        let g:plug_home = stdpath('data') . '/.plugged'
endif

call plug#begin()

Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'tpope/vim-rhubarb'
Plug 'cohama/lexima.vim'
Plug 'doki-theme/doki-theme-vim'

if has("nvim")
        Plug '/neovim/nvim-lspconfig'
        Plug 'glepnir/lspsaga.nvim'
        Plug 'nvim-lua/completion-nvim'
        Plug '/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter', {'do': ':TSUpdate'}
endif

call plug#end()

let g:plug_home = stdpath("data") . "/plugged"

call plug#begin(plug_home)

I just added Plug 'doki-theme/doki-theme-vim' below Plug 'cohama/lexima.vim'.

Once you remove this from your init.vim:

packadd! doki-theme
syntax enable

This error should go away.

Error executing C:\Users\Windows\AppData\Local\nvim\init.vim:
line 200:
E919: Directory not found in 'packpath': "pack/*/opt/doki-theme"

Also be sure to run :PlugInstall in NeoVim

[Antonio-Scarface]

I tried to do this but I can't install plugins written into plug.vim file (the output of :PlugInstall is like I have installed any new plugins)... the fun fact is that I couldn't do that from a day that I was trying to configure neovim with some plugins (like telescope), and i couldn't install for no reason If u know why u can solve me a lot of other issues too! Pls tell me if u know!

[Antonio-Scarface]

This is the output (as u can see, there is no doki-theme plugin installed):

Updated. Elapsed time: 0.512548 sec.                    
  2 [==================]                                    
  3                                                         
  4 - Finishing ... Done!                                   
  5 - lspsaga.nvim: Already installed                       
  6 - ultisnips: Already installed                          
  7 - vim-snippets: Already installed                       
  8 - nvim-treesitter: Already installed                    
  9 - coc.nvim: Already installed                           
 10 - semantic-highlight.vim: Already installed             
 11 - nerdtree: Already installed                           
 12 - nvim-completion-manager: Already installed            
 13 - vim-fugitive: Already installed                       
 14 - typescript-vim: Already installed                    
 15 - vim-man: Already installed                            
 16 - iodide-vim-communicator: Already installed            
 17 - gruvbox: Already installed                            
 18 - nightfox.nvim: Already installed                      
 19 - themes: Already installed                             
 20 - nerdcommenter: Already installed                      
 21 - undotree: Already installed                           
 22 - ctrlp.vim: Already installed

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I tried to do this but I can't install plugins written into plug.vim file (the output of :PlugInstall is like I have installed any new plugins)...

I think it might be ignoring your plug.vim file. Why don't you try adding Plug 'doki-theme/doki-theme-vim' below Plug 'leafgarland/typescript-vim', and run an install again.

[Antonio-Scarface]

I have already did this... in fact, as i said, I can see the colour theme changing, but not the background; here is how it looks like with :colorscheme rias_crimson:

[Antonio-Scarface]

Hey I have resolved the issue with plug.vim... it was because i wrote :source % into it, so it didn't read it... however, the colorscheme remains always the same as the cmd photo that i sent to u... no background as ur 02 one

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no background as ur 02 one

That's a feature of doki-theme-hyper. Download hyper.js, and install the Doki Theme plugin there and then you'll have the background image when using a terminal.

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Tip: if you try hyper i doki-theme-hyper (after installing hyper) and it complains about hyper isn't a command just add hyper to the path. Quit hyper (make sure all processes are stopped, and open it again. Should be able to run the command after that.

[Antonio-Scarface]

Now I have solved the problem... the fun fact is that it was an easy problem: i wasn't using hyper. I was using Windows Terminal