How to install visual studio code editor on fedora 27 / centos 7 / RHEL 7

Installing visual studio code editor steps for fedora 27 / centos 7 / RHEL 7

This steps are to install visual studio code editor for RHEL, centos or fedora based distributions.

1. Install the key

$ sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

2. Create a repo file 'vscode.repo' with following configurations using root user.

$ su - 

or using

$ sudo -i

Repo file 'vscode.repo'

[code]
name=Visual Studio Code
baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

or using echo command, create a repo file.

# echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo

or For sudo users

$ sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[code]\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo'

3. Check the updates and update the cache.

$ sudo dnf check-update

this command displays the messages like shown below

Fedora 24 - x86_64                                                                                                                                                                 1.9 MB/s |  47 MB     00:24    
google-chrome                                                                                                                                                                       14 kB/s | 3.4 kB     00:00    
Visual Studio Code                                                                                                                                                                  86 kB/s | 2.0 MB     00:23    
Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates                                                                                                                                                       127 kB/s |  24 MB     03:09    

google-chrome-stable.x86_64                                                                              71.0.3578.98-1                                                                               google-chrome     

4. Install the visual studio editor using below command.

$ sudo dnf install code

this command displays the messages like shown below

Visual Studio Code                                                                                                                                                                  94 kB/s | 2.0 MB     00:21    
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'mstuchli-Python3.5', disabling.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:14 ago on Fri Dec 14 20:18:17 2018.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                       Arch                                            Version                                                         Repository                                     Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 code                                          x86_64                                          1.30.0-1544567256.el7                                           code                                           63 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 63 M
Installed size: 184 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
code-1.30.0-1544567256.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                              173 kB/s |  63 MB     06:10    
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                                                                                                              173 kB/s |  63 MB     06:10     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Installing  : code-1.30.0-1544567256.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                              1/1 
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop": "" is an invalid MIME type ("" does not contain a subtype)
  Verifying   : code-1.30.0-1544567256.el7.x86_64                                                                                                                                                              1/1 

Installed:
  code.x86_64 1.30.0-1544567256.el7                                                                                                                                                                                

Complete!

if dnf command is not supported for older versions of fedora / centos / RHEL, we can use yum command as displayed below.

$ sudo yum check-update
$ sudo yum install code

5. Command to launch visual studio code editor on fedora, centos or RHEL environment.

$ code

visual studio code editor is opened.