Pygmentize not installed error on Visual Studio Code

Question

I have been using VS Code + Latex Workshop for the last year and so to write up my tex documents however today I tried using the minted package which I have installed in /usr/local/bin/pygmentize

In my preamble I have used the line \usepackage{minted} and when I try to produce my pdf I get this error in my .log file:

Package minted Error: You must have `pygmentize' installed 
to use this package.

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

You could try @David Carlisle's comment by adding --shell-escape to the compiling commands in the preference of LaTeX Workshop, like the following:

// in USER SETTINGS add the following
"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
    {
        "name": "latexmk",
        "command": "latexmk",
        "args": [
            "--shell-escape", // added arg to default
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "-pdf",
            "%DOC%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "pdflatex",
        "command": "pdflatex",
        "args": [
            "--shell-escape", // added arg to default
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "%DOC%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "bibtex",
        "command": "bibtex",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    }
]

This worked for me with VS Code 1.24.1 and LaTeX Workshop 5.5.1.