Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.100.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: visual-studio-code-bin
Description: Visual Studio Code (vscode): Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications (official binary version)
Upstream URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Licenses: custom: commercial
Conflicts: code
Provides: code, vscode
Submitter: dcelasun
Maintainer: dcelasun
Last Packager: dcelasun
Votes: 1520
Popularity: 14.86
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-03 17:46 (UTC)

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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-06 21:33 (UTC) by dcelasun)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (read before flagging or commenting!)

  • What is the difference between this package and the one in the community repo?

This is the official binary distribution from Microsoft. The one in the community repo is an unofficial build made from source. Beyond the license difference and branding, there are some proprietary features not available in the open source version.

  • There is a new version out, why is the package not updated?

Please check this page before flagging as out-of-date. If there is no new version on that page, it's not yet released. A tag on Github is NOT a release! If you can see the new version on the updates page but the AUR package is still not updated, flag it and give it time. It's usually done within a day or two.

  • I'm using an AUR helper (yay, yaourt etc.) and I can't install it. Why?

Sometimes AUR helpers do weird things. Download the tarball and install it manually with makepkg -si. If that works, report the problem to your AUR helper's upstream, not here.

  • When I install this package xdg-open uses vscode, not my file manager! How do I fix this?

Install shared-mime-info-gnome. Also see this reddit thread.

  • Why is $X a dependency? I don't like it.

Just because $X is not required to open the app, doesn't mean there is nothing that depends on it. Always search the comment history on AUR to see if that dependency has been previously discussed before writing your own comment. Still nothing? Then use namcap to make sure it's really not needed. If namcap doesn't complain, please leave a comment here and I'll investigate.

  • Something is broken with the app, where do I report it?

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  • I have a problem with this package, can I email you?

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Latest Comments

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francoism90 commented on 2025-05-28 13:29 (UTC)

Anyone else not getting a window when using "window.titleBarStyle": "native"?

vince-k commented on 2025-05-27 15:54 (UTC)

@l4v3nx the error indicates that chrome-sandbox should have mode 4755 and according to your output it has 0755. Run chmod 4755 /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox as root.

l4v3nx commented on 2025-05-24 20:06 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-24 20:07 (UTC) by l4v3nx)

installed with yay, after launching (no flags) got the following error:

$ code --verbose
[235785:0524/230447.278958:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(163)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

$ stat /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox
  File: /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox
  Size: 38224       Blocks: 80         IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 0,35    Inode: 2400930     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2025-05-24 23:02:00.000000000 +0300
Modify: 2025-05-22 07:03:14.000000000 +0300
Change: 2025-05-24 23:02:00.115573517 +0300
 Birth: 2025-05-24 23:02:00.115573517 +0300

alejandroch commented on 2025-05-20 14:39 (UTC)

Failed with yay so I downloaded the tarball and install it manually with makepkg -si but still can't update, got this error:

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.100.2/linux-x64/stable

oech3 commented on 2025-05-06 08:57 (UTC)

Would you depends=(ripgrep);ln -sf /usr/bin/rg /pathto/app/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/bin/rg (code of Arch do)?

dcelasun commented on 2025-04-29 08:00 (UTC)

This was the original upstream issue for icu69. I don't use live share, so I'll remove it if anyone can confirm it's no longer needed.

oech3 commented on 2025-04-29 07:40 (UTC)

Is icu69 still valid for ms-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-1.0.5948 ? I could not find any reason from it.

oech3 commented on 2025-04-27 06:36 (UTC) (edited on 2025-04-28 08:19 (UTC) by oech3)

Where is the binary calls icu69 optionally?

Edit: would anyone ldd ing binary from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/install-live-share-visual-studio-code ?

dcelasun commented on 2025-04-04 15:23 (UTC)

@heftig thanks, done!

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