Fixing Manim Sideview's 'No such file or directory: latex' Error

After installing Manim Community¹ with uv, I ran into an issue where Manim Sideview² (the VS Code extension) threw a FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'latex' error, even though manim checkhealth passed all checks.

The problem? Manim Sideview was using a different Manim installation (Homebrew) instead of my working uv virtual environment.

The Fix #

Open VS Code settings and set manim-sideview.defaultManimPath to point to your virtual environment’s Manim executable:

{
  "manim-sideview.defaultManimPath": "/path/to/your/.venv/bin/manim"
}

You can find this path by running which manim in your terminal while your virtual environment is activated.

That’s it! I hope this helps someone - it’s awesome to still be able to use uv anywhere possible.