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)

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 Please check this page AND this page before flagging as out-of-date.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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dcelasun commented on 2019-02-13 12:00 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-13 12:01 (UTC) by dcelasun)

@xereda, something must have gone wrong with your download which corrupted the file. Delete it and try again.

$ sha256sum code_x64_1.31.1.tar.gz 
154a316eb6785c126e2fccd80a5c76291321ca2d6945e7a2a13f2e262be89bde  code_x64_1.31.1.tar.gz

munim commented on 2019-02-10 18:35 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-10 18:36 (UTC) by munim)

Getting the following error while upgrading from 1.30.2-1 -> 1.31.0-2

(OK):download completed.
mv: cannot stat '/tmp/yaourt-tmp-munim/aur-visual-studio-code-bin/stable': No such file or directory
  -> Found visual-studio-code.desktop
  -> Found visual-studio-code-url-handler.desktop
==> Validating source_x86_64 files with sha256sums...
    code_x64_1.31.0.tar.gz ... NOT FOUND
    visual-studio-code.desktop ... Passed
    visual-studio-code-url-handler.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build visual-studio-code-bin.
==> Restart building visual-studio-code-bin ? [y/N]

DonJogi commented on 2019-02-07 20:24 (UTC)

@dcelasun thanks for your suggestion! I wanted to try this right now, but the new version 1.31.0-2 works great, so it's solved for me. Thanks again!

chih commented on 2019-02-07 04:20 (UTC)

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/65744/files In 1.31.0. gconf no longer needs.

dcelasun commented on 2019-02-05 09:55 (UTC)

@Donjogi, can you try code --disable-gpu and see if it helps?

DonJogi commented on 2019-02-04 19:05 (UTC)

I tried to install visual-studio-code-bin today freshly with yay on KDE Plasma 5.14.5. On startup the app crashes before showing a window with the following stacktrace. I double-checked the current "code" arch package which works out of the box.

Any hint if I can solve this by myself?

$ code --verbose
[21302:0204/194114.705115:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(344)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process. [main 7:41:14 PM] Sending env to running instance... [main 7:41:14 PM] [ 'TypeError: Cannot read property \'call\' of undefined', ' at e.onPromise (/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:191:666)', ' at e.onRawMessage (/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:191:326)', ' at /opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:190:769', ' at e.fire (/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:123:512)', ' at a (/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:200:948)', ' at Socket._socketDataListener (/opt/visual-studio-code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-main/main.js:201:153)', ' at emitOne (events.js:116:13)', ' at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)', ' at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:263:12)', ' at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:11)', ' at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)', ' at Pipe.onread (net.js:594:20)' ]

angellusmortis commented on 2019-02-01 05:39 (UTC) (edited on 2019-02-01 05:41 (UTC) by angellusmortis)

@noraj code is maintained by the Arch team. It is them taking the VS Code code base and building their own open source version. It is technically an unoffical release of VS Code.

visual-studio-code-bin is the official release by Microsoft repacked to be installed on Arch.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both of them. Most notably, code is open source and visual-studio-code-bin has many of Microsoft's closed source improvements (it works via X11 forwarding for example, whereas most other Electron apps do not).

(at least that is my take on why there would be interest in this one)

noraj commented on 2019-01-22 10:06 (UTC)

Now that there is https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/, what is the interest of visual-studio-code-bin ?

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