Visual Studio Code AppImage

Unofficial / Community provided Visual Studio Code AppImage - stable release

Get Started

Download the latest stable release

• stable release only
• supports update of the AppImage

Executing

File Manager

Double-click the *.AppImage file and you are done!

In normal cases, the above method should work, but in some cases you need mark file as executable. You can do this using File manager -> right click > Properties > Allow Execution, or by terminal issuing command chmod +x VSCode-*.AppImage

AppImageLauncher

Use AppImageLauncher for better desktop integration ==> download AppImageLauncher

Terminal

chmod +x VSCode-*.AppImage
./VSCode-*.AppImage

Official source code

The official source code of the Visual Studio Code is available at links provided https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

Build

The AppImage is built from .tar.gz Visual Studio Code package by GitHub Continuous Integration using this bash script https://github.com/valicm/appimage-bash.