Visual Studio Code manager

Visual Studio Code install and update management for UNIX users with limited administrator privileges.

Administrator privileges may be limited by your company for security reasons.

Install

Add this repository to your PATH environment variable:

cat << EOF >> "$HOME/.bashrc" 
export PATH="<repository direname>:\${PATH}"
EOF

Then, execute the install-code command to automatically install Visual Studio Code.

The last Visual Studio Code tarball will be downloaded in the archives directory and extracted in the install directory. The last installation directory is identified with the install/latest symlink.

A XDG Desktop Entry is also installed in your local environment by the install-code command.

Update

When Visual Studio Code warns you that a new version is available:

• Close all your Visual Studio Code sessions (with ctrl+Q).
• Execute the install-code command to automatically update your Visual Studio Code installation.
• Restart Visual Studio Code (see start Visual Studio Code).

Start

Through the CLI

Execute the code command to start Visual Studio Code.

Through the XDG Desktop Entry

You can also use the XDG Desktop Entry installed in your local environment by the install-code command.

Security concerns

As Visual Studio Code is not install as a system package, it will be executed outside the sandbox environment.

Manage proxy settings

As your company is limiting your administrator privileges, it may also impose you to access the internet through a proxy.

To allow Visual Studio Code to access the internet, you can modify the proxy file to export the proxy configuration variables:

proxy_address='http://[<user>[:<password>]@]<url>:<port>'
export http_proxy="${proxy_address}"
export https_proxy="${proxy_address}"
export no_proxy='localhost,127.0.0.1,<intranet domain>'
export HTTP_PROXY="${http_proxy}"
export HTTPS_PROXY="${https_proxy}"
export NO_PROXY="${no_proxy}"

This file will be automatically sourced by the code and install-code commands.