How do I install Visual Studio Code?

Update

VSCode is now available as DEB file. You can download it and then run:

sudo dpkg -i ~/path/to/code_1.XXX.deb

In case dpkg complains about missing dependencies, run:

sudo apt -f install

afterwards to fix the problem.

Old answer

1. Download Visual Studio Code for Linux
2. Extract it: unzip VSCode-linux-x64.zip -d ~/path/to/VSCode
3. Run the code executable to open Visual Studio Code
4. (Optional) Create a symbolic link to conveniently run code from the terminal:
   sudo ln -s /path/to/VSCode/code /usr/local/bin/code

Source (install instructions): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

You can use Ubuntu Make to download and install Visual Studio Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make

Then install Visual Studio Code:

umake ide visual-studio-code

Then click on the Visual studio icon that it automatically places on your launcher.

To remove it, delete the installation folder and right click on the launcher to unpin the icon. The installation folder defaults to ~/tools/web/visual-studio-code

References

• http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Ubuntu-Make-0.7-released-with-Visual-Studio-Code-support
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make

Visual Studio Code enabled official Linux repositories on February 2017 (v1.10)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EB3E94ADBE1229CF
sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main"
sudo apt -y install code

You can upgrade / dist-upgrade as usual

sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y dist-upgrade