VSCodium is a free, open-source, and community-driven version of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It allows developers to use an efficient and powerful code editor with no telemetry tracking, proprietary software, or branding related to Microsoft. VSCodium offers cross-platform support and is readily available for different OS distributions.
In this tutorial, we will be guiding you through the process of installing VSCodium on POP! OS latest release using a command-line interface (CLI) efficiently.
Before you get started, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
It's preferred to use official VSCodium repositories to install it to your system effectively. The following command adds the VSCodium repository to your package manager.
$ wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
After adding VSCodium's repository key, let's add VSCodium's package list into POP! OS's package manager. Here, we will utilize curl command-line yet again to add VSCodium's package list.
$ echo 'deb https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs/ vscodium main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
Now, we have added the VSCodium repository with its package list into POP! OS. It's time to update the package manager and install VSCodium into our system.
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install codium
After installation, let's launch VSCodium on your POP! OS.
$ codium
You can also seek VSCodium from the apps list under the "Programming" section to start the application.
Congratulations! You have installed VSCodium on your POP! OS machine efficiently. You can now enjoy the power and simplicity of a community-driven, open-source code editor with no data-collecting or privacy-invading issues.
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