VS Codium is a binary releases of VS Code without MS branding, telemetry andlicensing. It is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
It is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.
In this guide we are going to installĀ VS Codium in a Fedora 35 Workstation.
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Prerequisites
To follow along, ensure that you have the following:
- Up to date Fedora 35 Workstation
- Root access or User with sudo access on the server
Ensuring that Fedora 35 Workstation is up to date
Before proceeding let us ensure that our workstation is up to date. Use this command to achieve this:
Installing Visual Studio Codium
To istall VS Codium, get the latest release from this release page.
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| curl -LO -C - https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.62.0/codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
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Output from my machine:
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| $ curl -LO -C - https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.62.0/codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 678 100 678 0 0 623 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 623
100 104M 100 104M 0 0 376k 0 0:04:44 0:04:44 --:--:-- 385k
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Download sha256 file
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| $ curl -LO -C - https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.62.0/codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm.sha256
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 685 100 685 0 0 373 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 373
100 106 100 106 0 0 34 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 166
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Verify Sha256 on my machine
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| $ cat codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm.sha256
a4519033a0c32ee1d4b4e3d62f3840952b674b3008abad13f33d5a487ba7e7ef codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
$ sha256sum ./codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
a4519033a0c32ee1d4b4e3d62f3840952b674b3008abad13f33d5a487ba7e7ef ./codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
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Then install
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| $ sudo dnf install ./codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64.rpm
password for etowett:
Last metadata expiration check: 2:54:53 ago on Mon 08 Nov 2021 03:11:57 PM EAT.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
codium x86_64 1.62.0-1636200990.el7 @commandline 105 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package
Total size: 105 M
Installed size: 285 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.x86_64
Complete!
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Confirm the package installed using this command:
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| $ rpm -qi codium
Name : codium
Version : 1.62.0
Release : 1636200990.el7
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 08 Nov 2021 06:07:01 PM EAT
Group : Development/Tools
Size : 299180517
License : MIT
Signature : (none)
Source RPM : codium-1.62.0-1636200990.el7.src.rpm
Build Date : Sat 06 Nov 2021 03:16:49 PM EAT
Build Host : 9e9047a9d26c
Packager : VSCodium Team https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/graphs/contributors
Vendor : VSCodium Team
URL : https://vscodium.com/
Summary : Code editing. Redefined.
Description :
VSCodium is a new choice of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for the core edit-build-debug cycle. See https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#download-install for installation instructions and FAQ.
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3. Launching VS Codium
To Launch VS Codium on Fedora, open up your terminal then run this command:
Or search from activities menu.
You should get VS Codium welcome window.
You can then install the plugins to extend VS Codium functionality.
Conclusion
We managed to install VS Codium in a Fedora 35 Workstation in this guide.