How to Install Visual Studio Code on Debian 11

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Install Visual Studio Code on Debian 11

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go etc.

In this article, we will show you how to install visual studio code on debian11.

Step 1: install packages

First, we will start by updating the packages index and installing dependencies.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https curl

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Step 2: Import GPG key

we need to import the Microsoft GPG key with the following commands.

curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -o microsoft.asc
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./ms_signing_key_temp.gpg --import ./microsoft.asc
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./ms_signing_key_temp.gpg --export > ./ms_signing_key.gpg
sudo mv ms_signing_key.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

Step 3: Add VS code repo

Now import microsoft Visual Source Repository

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

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Step 4: Install VS code

Install the Visual Studio Code package using below commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

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Step 5: Access VS code

visual studio code has been installed on your Debian11 system. Now you can access from the command line with 'code' or from the desktop system, go to Activities and search for visual studio code ans launch it.