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April 1, 2019

How to install Vscodium in Linux. (with updates)


Visual studio code, a popular IDE for developers.

Visual studio code is among the best IDE's for code writers that features plugins, the problem is that Microsoft still steals your information through it, and it is a bit uncomfortable to see that Microsoft knows what you code.

Vscodium, the solution

Vscodium is the same as Visual studio code but it uses binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing. So you are free of Microsoft's shackles, Without loosing any features.


How to install:

First you need to add the repositories to your distribution, I used fedora so in the directory "/etc/yum.repos.d" I create a .repo file named " vscodium.repo "
Using the nano command (Sudo nano), install nano using "sudo dnf install nano" if you don't have it. after nano installation copy this instructions into the interface:

nano interface


[vscodium]
name=Vscodium Fedora $releasever
baseurl=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/repos/rpms/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=14d
type=rpm-md
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/vscodium



Then use " ctrl+O" to write in the directory "/etc/yum.repos.d/vscodium.repo " 
As you can see at the end of the code we see a directory containing the encryption key so we need to create encryption key for it, close then re-open nano, type this key into it make sure to include Begin and end headers in the file! :

 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----


 Copy and write this key into this directory "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/vscodium", note that vscodium is plain text and does not require any file type,  then just type in "sudo dnf install codium" and you are ready to go! 

After installation run vscodium,  settings>type in the bar "@tag" and click the first bar, then unselect the first three row that appears.




Thanks to fedora community for this tutorial.
Github link for vscodium.
Enjoy coding!
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