How to upgrade Visual Studio Code editor?
If you have installed it via the repository, exit VS Code then just do:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code
This is the same command to install or upgrade to the latest version. You can see the version with:
code --version
Now the easiest and recommended way is to use snap:
sudo snap install --classic code
And updates are supposed to be automatic.
Visual Studio Code enabled official Linux repositories on February 2017 (v1.10)
sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main "
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install code
You can upgrade / dist-upgrade as usual
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y dist-upgrade
[1]: download the latest vscode (.deb) package to your computer on this link :
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=760868
, or this there :
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/
[2]: then open a terminal in the folder where you downloaded the .deb file and write:
sudo dpkg -i <the downloaded file>.deb
[3]: finally if you have apt-get do (if not install apt-get first):
sudo apt-get install -f
This works fine in ubuntu.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install code