Install Visual Studio Code in Linux 🙂
** Introduction of Visual Studio Code editor
Visual Studio Code (also know as VS Code) is an open-source, cross-platform editor from Microsoft.
In simple terms, “It is a free-editor which helps the programmer to write code, helps in debugging and corrects the code using the intelli-sense method”. In normal terms, it facilitates users to write the code in an easy manner.
** Visual Studio Code has very unique features & some of them are :
Cross-platform support
Syntax highlighting
Intelli-Sense
Plug-in or extensions
Tree view representation
Integrated terminal
Git Integration
** Installation Process of VS Code in Ubuntu20.02
Step 1 - First update Local Ubuntu Repositories - sudo apt-get update
Step 2 - Open your favorite browser & navigate to Link - https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Step 3 - Microsoft provides .deb file for Debian & Ubuntu and .rpm file for Red Hat,Fedora & CentOS.Identify the desired installation package and download it.
Step 4 - Once the file has been downloaded, open a Terminal window. Change the directory to the location where the file was downloaded. cd ~/Downloads
Step 5 - Now Install the package using the apt utility: sudo apt install ./file.deb
Step 6 (Optional) -So you can execute the following command to install all of the missing dependencies: sudo apt-get install -f
**Starting Visual Studio Code
Method 1 - In the Activities search bar type “Visual Studio Code” and click on the icon to launch the application.
Method 2 - You can also launch the VS code from the command line by typing code
** Note : Microsoft makes a new release of Visual Studio code every month which means the version you install will be different from the version i have installed in my machine at the time of making this video.
Also when a new version is released you can update the Visual Studio Code package through your desktop standard Software Update tool or by running the following commands in terminal:
cmd 1 - sudo apt update
cmd 2 - sudo apt upgrade
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