In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install the VSCodium on Fedora CoreOS latest. VSCodium is an open-source version of the popular Visual Studio Code editor, with no telemetry or tracking code.
Before we get started, we need to ensure that we have the following prerequisites:
VSCodium is not available in the official Fedora CoreOS repositories. The easiest way to install VSCodium on Fedora CoreOS latest is by downloading it from the official website using the curl command-line tool.
First, open up your terminal and run the following command to download the latest version of VSCodium.
sudo curl -fsSL https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/latest/download/vscodium-x86_64-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz -o vscodium.tar.gz
This command will download the latest version of VSCodium and save it as vscodium.tar.gz.
Next, extract the downloaded package by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo tar -xzf vscodium.tar.gz -C /opt
This command will extract the VSCodium package to the /opt/VSCodium directory.
To create a launcher for VSCodium on Fedora CoreOS latest, navigate to the /usr/share/applications directory by running the following command:
cd /usr/share/applications
Next, create a new .desktop file by running the following command:
sudo nano VSCodium.desktop
This command will open up the nano text editor. Paste the following text in the VSCodium.desktop file.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=VSCodium
GenericName=Visual Studio Code
Comment=Visual Studio Code without telemetry
Exec=/opt/vscodium/vscodium
Icon=/opt/vscodium/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE;
StartupNotify=true
Save the file by pressing ctrl+o and exit from the nano editor by pressing ctrl+x .
You can now launch VSCodium from the Application Launcher. To do this, press the Super Key on your keyboard, search for VSCodium, and click on the icon to launch.
Alternatively you can use the below command to launch VSCodium.
/opt/vscodium/vscodium
Congratulations! You have successfully installed VSCodium on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now use VSCodium to create and edit code without worrying about any telemetry or tracking code.
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