How to Install VSCodium on NetBSD

VSCodium is a free and open-source code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code. It is essentially the same as Visual Studio Code but without the telemetry and tracking features. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing VSCodium on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

• A computer running NetBSD
• Internet connection

Step 1: Install Prerequisites

Before we proceed with the installation of VSCodium, we need to ensure that our system is up to date and has all the necessary prerequisites. We can start by updating the packages with the following command:

$ sudo pkgin update

Next, we need to install some essential packages like git, sudo, curl, and wget. We can do this using the following command:

$ sudo pkgin install git sudo curl wget

Step 2: Installing VSCodium

To install VSCodium on NetBSD, we can download the binary tarball from the official GitHub repository. We can do this by executing the following commands:

$ wget -O vscodium.tar.gz https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.56.2/vscodium-1.56.2.tar.gz

Note that we are downloading version 1.56.2 of VSCodium; feel free to replace this version number with the latest version available on the official GitHub repository.

Next, we need to extract the tarball we just downloaded. We can do this with the following command:

$ tar -xzf vscodium.tar.gz

This will extract the contents of the tarball into a directory called vscodium.

The next step is to move the vscodium directory to /opt. We can do this with the following command:

$ sudo mv vscodium /opt/

Step 3: Creating a Symbolic Link

We can create a symbolic link to make it easier to run VSCodium from the terminal. We can do this with the following command:

$ sudo ln -sf /opt/vscodium/bin/codium /usr/local/bin/vscodium

Step 4: Launching VSCodium

Now that we have installed VSCodium on NetBSD, we can launch it from the terminal with the following command:

$ vscodium

Conclusion

That's it! You have now successfully installed VSCodium on your NetBSD system. You can now use this powerful code editor for your programming projects.

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