How to Install Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu 18 04

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Install visual studio code in ubuntu 18.04

Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It has built-in debugging support, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, code completion, code refactoring, and snippets.It is highly customizable, allowing users to change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add additional functionality. The source code is free and open source and released under the permissive MIT License.

VSCode is cross platform text editor and can be installed on Windows, Mac and Linux. This tutorial explains how to install Vscode on Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop operating system.

First we will update apt and install dependency packages with below commands.

root@linuxbox:~# apt update
root@linuxbox:~# apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https curl

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Download and import the Microsoft signing GPG key using the curl or wget

root@linuxbox:~# curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -o microsoft.asc
root@linuxbox:~# apt-key add microsoft.asc
OK

And enable the Visual Studio Code repository as below

root@linuxbox:~# echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main"  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

Now install visual studio code

root@linuxbox:~# apt update
root@linuxbox:~# apt install code

Now VS Code is installed on your Ubuntu system. you can launch it either from the command line by typing code or from graphical mode, go to Activities and click on visual studio code.

update visual studio code

When a new version is released you can update the Visual Studio Code package

through apt  command.

root@linuxbox:~# apt update
root@linuxbox:~# apt upgrade code

you can set visual studio code as the default editor then run following command

root@linuxbox:~# update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/code

you can also install VS Code via Snap pakage management.

root@linuxbox:~# apt install snapd
root@linuxbox:~# snap install vscode --classic

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