How to Install Visual Studio Code in Fedora and CentOS

    RahulBy 2 Mins ReadUpdated:

    Visual Studio Code (not Visual Studio IDE) is a lightweight source code editor for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js Applications. It also has extensions for multiple other programming languages like C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go, etc. This tutorial will help you to install Visual Studio Code on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, and its derivatives systems. Remember that Visual Studio Code is Different than Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

    Step 1 – Enable Yum Repository

    Visual Studio code provides an official yum repository for the installation of package on Yum supported system. The same repository can be used for Fedora systems to use with dnf. Let’s create a new file /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo and edit in your favorite text editor.

    vim /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo

    Add the below content:

    [vscode]
name=Visual Studio Code
baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

    Step 2 – Install Visual Studio Code

    The Yum will manage the gpg key for you, But you can also Import the package signing GPG key on your system using the following command.

    sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

    After importing GPG key, Let’s use commands to install Visual Studio Code on your RHEL based system.

    ## CentOS and RHEL system
sudo yum check-update
sudo yum install code

## Fedora systems:
sudo dnf install code

    Step 3 – Launch Visual Studio Code

    The Visual Studio Code has been installed on your system. You can now launch the Visual Studio Code editor on your system using the desktop menu. After that create a new file or open files and directories using the File menu.

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    Step 4 – Add Required Extensions

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

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    10 Comments

    3. manas on

      hi rahul, after type command /code . –> visual studio is not opening. in command line how can i open visual studio generally i am not using windows am using server version of centos.

      error: It is recommended to start vscode as a normal user. To run as root, you must specify an alternate user data directory with the –user-data-dir argument.
      then
      sudo code –user-data-dir /home/fregie/.code-root-user-data

      nothing is working…

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    4. David Carlin on

      vim command needs to be run with sudo if you are not running in root, otherwise there is a permissions issue with creating a directory in /etc.

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    5. Doan on

      I already completed above steps, but when I run command “code” to launch, it got msg” -bash: /usr/local/bin/code: No such file or directory”

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    8. Rick Munoz on

      Thanks for the great post. Yum check-update did seem to fetch the vscode files. Unfortunately the sudo yum install code returns:

      No package code available
      Error: unable to find a match

      When I run yum list | grep vscode I get this:

      code.x86_64 1.12.2-1494422362.el7 vscode

      So I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. (Yes, I’m a Linux newbie). Thanks.

      (running F25)

      Reply

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