As you may already know, Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft’s free (not open-source), platform independent IDE with support for many programming languages, including: C++, C#, CSS, CoffeeScript, Clojure, Go, HTML, JSON, Lua, Objective-C, PHP, Perl, Python, R, Bash (Shell Script), SQL, Less, YAML, Markdown, Java, F#, JS, Ini, Batch, Clojure, Dockerfile, Handlebars, Makefile, Jade, PowerShell, Razor, Sass, TypeScript, Plain Text, Visual Basic, git integration, full-screen support, split editor features, keyboard shortcuts, find and replace functions and autosave.
At first, Microsoft’s VSC was available only for 64 bit Linux systems, the easiest way to install it being via Canonical’s Ubuntu Make. Recently, Ubuntu Mate 0.8.2 has been released and brought Microsoft Visual Studio Code support for 32 bit systems as well, among others changes which have been implemented:
- Fix Visual Studio Code support due to new upstream archive layout and web page content.
- Add support for 32 bits installation of VSC as now supported upstream.
- Refresh and adapt large and medium tests to reflect those changes.
So, to install Microsoft Visual Studio Code on either 32 bit or 64 bit Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and derivative systems like Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint 6, Peppermint 5, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2, you have to add the Ubuntu Make PPA, update the local repository index, install ubuntu-make and run the umake command for installing VSC:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
$ umake web visual-studio-code
For more information about Ubuntu Make, see this article.
Optional, to uninstall ubuntu make and remove the visual studio code, do:
$ umake web visual-studio-code --remove
$ sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-make