Setting up VSC

on January 19, 2025

Visual Studio Code (VSC) is an open source, cross-platform text editor for software developers. It’s available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

VSC supports debugging, Git version control, syntax highlighting, automatic code completion, snippets, and refactoring. Visual Studio Code is highly customizable to meet user needs. In addition, you can install or create your own extensions. Extensions can be themes or support for new programming languages.

Install VSC on Debian (via apt)

Run the following commands to install Visual Studio Code on Debian.

Add the proprietary repository:

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg

sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft-archive-keyring.gpg

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'

Update the package cache and install:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

Install VSC on Arch Linux (via AUR helper)

First make sure that you have installed the AUR helper.

Install VSC with the following command,

yay -S visual-studio-code-bin

If you want to use the Code – OSS version of VSC, that is the Official Arch Linux open-source release, you can use this command.

sudo pacman -S code

On Windows

Of course, because VSC is a Microsoft product, you can install it also on Windows. Download it here.