How to use Live Share in cursor

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Hey I struggled to make live share in cursor and it seems like I’m not the only one: Live Share Extension Disapeared in V2

tldr: the old solution of downgrading it still works you just need to download it with the link directly because the UI doesn’t allow you to download the old version anymore:

wget https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/MS-vsliveshare/vsextensions/vsliveshare/1.0.5936/vspackage
cursor --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5936.vsix --force

“--force” is only required if you installed the new version from the marketplace and want to force downgrade.

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Legendary post - just what I needed. I downloaded with this command to make sure I got the vsix:

Invoke-WebRequest "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/MS-vsliveshare/vsextensions/vsliveshare/1.0.5936/vspackage" `
  -OutFile "MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5936.vsix"
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In my case the downloaded file wasn’t a proper VSIX (it was gzip-encoded).

What worked was using curl with redirect handling and automatic decompression:

curl -L --compressed \
-o MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5936.vsix \
"https://ms-vscode.gallery.vsassets.io/_apis/public/gallery/publisher/MS-vsliveshare/extension/vsliveshare/1.0.5936/assetbyname/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage"

After that, cursor --install-extension worked correctly.

Similar to jpatt0n’s approach, the key is making sure you actually download a real VSIX (ZIP) file.

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So in essence, the final end to end command(on MacOS atleast) is:

curl -L --compressed \
-o MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5936.vsix \
"https://ms-vscode.gallery.vsassets.io/_apis/public/gallery/publisher/MS-vsliveshare/extension/vsliveshare/1.0.5936/assetbyname/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage"

cursor --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5936.vsix --force