Copilot fails with error @github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

[ioweb-gr]

Describe the bug

After upgrading copilot it stopped working entirely with the error

/root/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.21.1/lib/node_modules/@github/copilot/node_modules/@github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

Affected version

No response

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Setup information

1. In WSL 1 install mise https://mise.jdx.dev/ (Ubuntu 20.04)
2. Install node 20 or 22 via mise e.g. mise use node@22
3. Install github copilot via npm i -g @github/copilot either latest version or pre-release

Try to run

copilot

An error appears

/root/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.21.1/lib/node_modules/@github/copilot/node_modules/@github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

Previously it worked fine for me

Expected behavior

copilot runs properly

Additional context

No response

[upacra]

#997

[RyanHecht]

Hey! By chance, does installing the precompiled binary via the install script work? curl -fsSL https://gh.io/copilot-install | bash

[ioweb-gr]

Nice idea. I tried it out and it seems it installed it in /usr/local/bin/copilot which mise was overriding.

However after manually running it via it's path directly it still gave an error

Exec format error

root@LUCIANO-PC:~#  curl -fsSL https://gh.io/copilot-install | bash
Installing GitHub Copilot CLI...
Downloading from: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases/latest/download/copilot-linux-x64.tar.gz
✓ Checksum validated
✓ GitHub Copilot CLI installed to /usr/local/bin/copilot

Installation complete! Run 'copilot help' to get started.
root@LUCIANO-PC:~# copilot
/root/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.21.1/lib/node_modules/@github/copilot/node_modules/@github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
root@LUCIANO-PC:~# /usr/local/bin/copilot
-bash: /usr/local/bin/copilot: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
root@LUCIANO-PC:~#