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: 30.43
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)

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 licence 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?

This package depends on both the official tarball and files from GitHub. Please check this page AND this page before flagging as out-of-date. If the new version isn't on both pages, this package cannot be updated! If you can see the new version on both pages, but the AUR package is still not updated, flag it and give it time. It's usually done within hours.

  • 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 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.

  • 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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jplatte commented on 2019-10-08 18:39 (UTC)

Seems like the which dependency will be removed in the next release :)

jplatte commented on 2019-10-08 12:09 (UTC)

I opened a PR to get rid of the which dependency: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/82097

dcelasun commented on 2019-10-08 08:12 (UTC)

@farseerfc good point! I've updated this package and visual-studio-code-insiders.

farseerfc commented on 2019-10-08 08:04 (UTC)

@dcelasun which is in base-devel which means that is assumed to be installed where makepkg is run. But we cannot safely assume the machine/environment runs makepkg is the same machine/environment that installs the package. In other words, base-devel is assumed to be in the makedepends array of all AUR packages, but not the depends array. If a program needs something from base-devel in runtime, I think that package should be added to depends.

akiirui commented on 2019-10-07 10:08 (UTC) (edited on 2019-10-07 10:24 (UTC) by akiirui)

@dcelasun

Oh, which is indeed in base-devel. maybe because base package replace, which and some packages marked unused packages (orphans) by pacman -Qdt... ( and I uninstalled these...

I think I need reinstall base-devel Please ignore my previous comment (XD

dcelasun commented on 2019-10-07 07:29 (UTC)

@akiirui, which is in the base-devel group which is assumed to be installed by all AUR packages.

<deleted-account> commented on 2019-09-28 13:03 (UTC)

There is somrthing that wasn't noted in arch wiki is that the "code" default Community repo can't run bash profile commands. When I installed NVM and then installed nodejs with it, node and npm commands can't be run in tasks.json or launch.json, you can only run those commands in integrated terminal. Although, this official visual code build runs those commands in tasks and launch.json without problems.

If you use NVM, flutter... I recommend you to use this package.

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