How to install Visual Studio Code on Linux?

Question

I have just downloaded VSCode-linux-x64 from the Microsoft website. It's a zip file called VSCode-linux-x64.zip. How can I install it on my Linux system?

Solution 1

I found the answer to my question and posting the answer so it can help others. To download and install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu . follow the steps below

• Download Visual Studio Code for Linux

• Extract the zip file VSCode-linux-x64.zip

• Go inside the folder VSCode-linux-x64

• double click and Run code executable to open Visual Studio Code .

• You can right click on Visual Studio Code on toolbar (or launcher)
  and select Lock to Launcher. this way you can launch the editor by
  clicking it on launcher.

If you are using terminal follow the terminal commands

• mkdir your_folder_name && cd your_folder_name unzip
• ../Downloads/VSCode-linux-x64.zip
• ./Code

This video will help you to download and install and use Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu if you still have some doubts

Solution 2

From a few pages deeper into the setup docs in the link you offered...

Linux

1. Download Visual Studio Code for Linux
2. Make a new folder and extract VSCode-linux-x64.zip inside that folder
3. Double click on Code to run Visual Studio Code

Tip: If you want to run VSCode from the terminal, create the following link substituting /path/to/vscode/Code with the absolute path to the Code executable
sudo ln -s /path/to/vscode/Code /usr/local/bin/code in any folder to start editing files in that folder.

Now, you can simply type code . in any folder to start editing files in that folder.

Solution 3

Installing with apt-get:

Step 1 – Enable Package Repository

Run the following command to enable Visual studio code repository to your system:

echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" | sudo \ tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vs-code.list

Step 2 – Install Visual Studio Code Editor

Now, Import the package signing gpg key on your system using the following command:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

Install Visual Studio Code on your Debian based system (like Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install code

Step 3 – Launch Visual Studio Code and enable its extensions:

Now You can launch the Visual Studio Code editor on your system using the graphical menu.

There are a large number of extensions available for Visual Studio Code like PHP, Python, JavaScript etc. Install the required extensions to enhance your working experience with Visual Studio Code.

Source: https://tecadmin.net/install-visual-studio-code-editor-ubuntu/

Solution 4

After 18.04 version, the following one-line terminal code works well.

sudo snap install code --classic

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Comments

[tripleee]

Not my downvotes, but this basically duplicates the earlier answer for Debian-based systems like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. There is noting specific to Kali Linux here (but if you are using Kali as a general-purpose system, you are doing something very wrong).