linter pylint is not installed vscode

Question

I know there are multiple version of this question on SO, I've tried the solutions posted on those threads and they don't seem to help :(

I have VS Code installed in an Ubuntu VM. I can't seem to get the python linter to work. i.e. I get a message saying

Linter pylint is not installed 

I am pretty sure pylint is installed on the VM because when I run which pylint I have a valied output.

Here are the outputs for which python and which pylint respectively

/usr/bin/python
/home/rakshak/.local/bin/pylint

And I have the following in my User settings and workspace settings in VS Code

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{
       "python.linting.pylintEnabled": true,
       "python.linting.pylintPath": "/home/rakshak/.local/bin/pylint",
       "python.pythonPath": "/usr/bin/python"
}

Answer 1

So, turns out this was just a permissions issue!

When I got the pylint not installed message, I was presented with a button to "Install pylint" this runs

sudo pip install pylint

This changed the owner of my .local/lib/ to root and made it inaccessible to vscode.

Output of ls -ld ~/.local/lib/ was

drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Sep 24 10:49 /home/userName/.local/lib/

Runing chown with my group and user fixed this issue.

sudo chown -R group:user ~/.local

now the output of ls -ld ~/.local/lib/ reads

drwx------ 3 userGroup userName 4096 Sep 24 10:49 /home/rakshak/.local/lib/