Config.json not found to submit solutions from vscode

Exercism Support
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Hi, I’ve installed successfully the Cli and the VS Code official extension (exercism.exercism-cli). I have opened my workspace correctly but when I submit the solution I receive this error message:

Cannot submit this solution automatically, because .exercism/config.json could not be found at /home/miguel/snap/exercism/5/exercism/.exercism/config.json. This may happen if you are trying to submit someone else their solution.

There’s no config.json file and not even the .exercism folder.

Should I create it? What content should it has? Shouldn’t it has being created on Cli installation?

Thank you very much!
Miguel

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Did you configure the CLI? You can do this with the Exercism CLI: Configure the Exercism CLI command.

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Thanks Matt, yes I did, the token is correct. Is there anything else to configure?

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exercism configure should report a Config dir. Does it differ from the directory you reported earlier?

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This might be a bug in the VS Code extension. To verify this we’d need more information.

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The vscode is looking for a /home/miguel/snap/exercism/5/exercism/.exercism/config.json. that does not exists. I have a /home/miguel/.config/exercism/user.json instead with the info about apibaseurl, token and workspace.

 miguel  ~/.config/exercism  exercism configure

You have configured the Exercism command-line client:

Config dir:                       /home/miguel/.config/exercism
Token:         (-t, --token)      my_token_is_correct_here
Workspace:     (-w, --workspace)  /home/miguel/snap/exercism/5/exercism
API Base URL:  (-a, --api)        https://api.exercism.io/v1
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How did you install Exercism. Snap isn’t officially supported as it tends to cause lots of issues, so if you installed it with that, that might be causing it (cc @NobbZ)

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Weird thing is: the extension was looking for the snap directory. The CLI itself is clear on the correct directory.

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I installed exercism-3.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz from here: Release exercism-v3.1.0 · exercism/cli · GitHub following the Cli install instructions: Exercism

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I’ve just copied the ~/.config/exercism/user.json into ~/snap/exercism/5/exercism/.exercism/config.json to check if it works and it’s saying now: “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘solution’)”