Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.121.0-1

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: 1668
Popularity: 31.05
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-20 10:43 (UTC)

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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-23 13:07 (UTC) by dcelasun)

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  • 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 licence difference and branding, there are some proprietary features not available in the open-source version.

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

Install shared-mime-info-gnome gnome-session which now includes mimemapps.

  • 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.

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shastry commented on 2020-11-12 04:33 (UTC)

Please add to PKGBUILD: options=('!strip')

This will speed up packaging significantly.

It is a handy option when repackaging binary.

dcelasun commented on 2020-11-09 19:27 (UTC)

Thanks @ItachiSan and @TheCycoONE, I've updated the PKGBUILD.

ItachiSan commented on 2020-11-09 12:22 (UTC) (edited on 2020-11-09 12:23 (UTC) by ItachiSan)

Hi @cdelasun,

As @TheCycoONE has mentioned, there are some issues with the sources definition. Sources in the source array (not the _ARCH ones) are used for all architectures, while architecture specific ones will be used on the specific architecture.

With this said you can improve the PKGBUILD in this way:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 1e1ee8d..9801312 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -14,38 +14,18 @@ conflicts=('code')
 depends=(libxkbfile gnupg gtk3 libsecret nss gcc-libs libnotify libxss glibc lsof)
 optdepends=('glib2: Needed for move to trash functionality'
             'libdbusmenu-glib: Needed for KDE global menu')
-source=(code_x64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/${pkgver}/linux-x64/stable
-               ${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop)
-
-
-source_x86_64=(code_x64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-x64/stable
-               ${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop
-               )
-source_aarch64=(code_arm64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-arm64/stable
-               ${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop
-               )
-source_armv7h=(code_armhf_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-armhf/stable
-               ${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop
-               )
-source_i686=(code_ia32_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-ia32/stable
-              ${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop
-              )
-
-sha256sums=('e08e5826afdb838cb3a04d9f13d2161f3d7219884b85fcfe133401fbb415dda1'
-            '0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
+source=(${_pkgname}.desktop ${_pkgname}-url-handler.desktop)
+source_x86_64=(code_x64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-x64/stable)
+source_aarch64=(code_arm64_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-arm64/stable)
+source_armv7h=(code_armhf_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-armhf/stable)
+source_i686=(code_ia32_${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://vscode-update.azurewebsites.net/latest/linux-ia32/stable)
+# This generates cleaner checksums
+sha256sums=('0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
             'be3d123aacd575d8f836728266eb421ea70399d713d1fc30378dbc5602b519fb')
-sha256sums_x86_64=('e08e5826afdb838cb3a04d9f13d2161f3d7219884b85fcfe133401fbb415dda1'
-                   '0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
-                   'be3d123aacd575d8f836728266eb421ea70399d713d1fc30378dbc5602b519fb')
-sha256sums_i686=('64360439cc2fa596838062f7e6f9757b79d4b775a564f18bad6cbad154bf850c'
-                 '0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
-                 'be3d123aacd575d8f836728266eb421ea70399d713d1fc30378dbc5602b519fb')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('657dc3190e44095efe283e9c2b776c68fffaf6ad6675db13dca173f918701001'
-                    '0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
-                    'be3d123aacd575d8f836728266eb421ea70399d713d1fc30378dbc5602b519fb')
-sha256sums_armv7h=('b5003b3a87ef57f508996fa85e3ea285ac942f69734a68ddc889386f3ec2a244'
-                   '0deefcb638e06c35a52e7e9fb8e19b2dc393f01e5c1c122d2938cddeb22cf8de'
-                   'be3d123aacd575d8f836728266eb421ea70399d713d1fc30378dbc5602b519fb')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('e08e5826afdb838cb3a04d9f13d2161f3d7219884b85fcfe133401fbb415dda1')
+sha256sums_i686=('64360439cc2fa596838062f7e6f9757b79d4b775a564f18bad6cbad154bf850c')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('657dc3190e44095efe283e9c2b776c68fffaf6ad6675db13dca173f918701001')
+sha256sums_armv7h=('b5003b3a87ef57f508996fa85e3ea285ac942f69734a68ddc889386f3ec2a244')


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TheCycoONE commented on 2020-11-08 12:58 (UTC)

The multiarch handling seems slightly off, on aarch64 it downloads and extracts both the x64 and arm64 versions, and the shared files are checked multiple times.

The end result works, but I think only the non-arch files (.desktop files) belong in source=, and they shouldn't be repeated in the source_arch sections.

dcelasun commented on 2020-10-14 22:58 (UTC)

With version 1.50.1 I've added ARM builds to this package. I don't have an ARM system to test with so let me know if you see any issues.

pfeerick commented on 2020-10-10 11:12 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-10 11:15 (UTC) by pfeerick)

The current version of this package only supports x64, not the (new) arm or arm64/aarch64 builds of VSCode. I had no issues using the official tar.gz for 1.50 from https://aka.ms/linux-arm64 on a Pinebook Pro (aarch64).

spqa commented on 2020-10-09 04:22 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-09 04:22 (UTC) by spqa)

To anyone get this error:

:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: visual-studio-code-bin
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD contains CRLF characters and cannot be sourced.
error downloading sources: visual-studio-code-bin

Use command git config --global core.autocrlf false and delete ~/.cache/yay/visual-studio-code-bin might help

Det commented on 2020-10-04 10:00 (UTC)

Pretty common for people to hardcode for Ubuntu.

dcelasun commented on 2020-10-04 09:55 (UTC)

@alosarjos I'd say that's a bug with their tool. Instead of checking a hardcoded path they should look for the code binary in $PATH. I'd report it upstream.

alosarjos commented on 2020-10-04 09:46 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-04 09:47 (UTC) by alosarjos)

I was checking the official binary install paths. Seems to be different than this package. The official Ubuntu .deb seems to install on /usr/share/code.

In the case of the Flutter framework, their doctor tool to check if VSCode is correctly installed has the /usr/share/code/bin/code path hardcoded to check if it's installed on the system, so it doesn't detect the installation from this package.

While this is a minor thing that won't stop Flutter from working with Flutter, I don't know if this could lead to another frameworks or tools problems that need to detect if VSCode is installed using the expected binary path from the official packages.

PD: Thanks a lot for maintaining this package.

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