Cursor's Plugins are Broken (for me at least) - Linux Mint

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The bug is whenever I launch the Cursor IDE, and whenever I try to use the built-in Cursor plugins like Continual Learning, Context7, Exa, etc. And whenever I also install any plugin as well, they take forever to load and install, eventually saying: Error loading plugin.

Steps to Reproduce

Not sure how this would be reproduced, I’m honestly confused because whenever I install just Linux Mint or any Linux OS for me whenever I switch from Windows to Linux and OS hop, it basically then says and tells me that I have an error loading a plugin, and whenever I close out of Cursor or anything like that it won’t even get fixed. So I don’t know what it is, maybe just try using Linux??

Expected Behavior

Self-explanatory, I mean I want the plugins to work but they just error out and don’t work.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Linux

Version Information

Version: 3.7.42
VS Code Extension API: 1.105.1
Commit: 5702c9cfca656d8710fad58402fe37f14345e3a0
Date: 2026-06-15T19:39:42.738Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Linux x64 6.17.0-35-generic

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Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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Thanks for the detailed report, and sorry for the hassle after moving to Linux Mint.

That red “Error loading plugin” text may actually be a button. Click it and see if it copies the underlying error to your clipboard.

Most likely cause I suspect : Cursor fetches plugins using git behind the scenes, and it’s possible that your machine doesn’t have git yet.

  1. Run git --version in a terminal.
  2. If you get “command not found”, install it: sudo apt install git
  3. Fully quit and reopen Cursor, then check the Plugins panel again.

If git is already installed and it still errors, the fetch is probably timing out behind a network, proxy, or VPN (which fits the “takes forever, then errors” pattern). Check Cursor Settings > Network > Run Diagnostics, and see Network, proxy, and remote connections.

(Closing and reopening doesn’t help because a failed fetch isn’t cached, so it just retries the same broken step each launch.)

If you can paste the copied error text plus your git --version output, I can pin down the exact fix.

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Hey Kevin! I didn’t see your message in time, I did switch to Windows again because I wasn’t too sure about things. Anyways I’ve installed Git on Windows and it works like a charm! Maybe I do need to get Git on Linux by using the Terminal next time, I wasn’t sure if I did it or not. Thanks for your support Kevin!!

I appreciate it!