Installing VS Code on Raspberry Pi

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Ed Goad

Log into the Raspberry Pi

Open the web browser and go to https://code.visualstudio.com

Click Other platforms

Under the Linux section (penguin icon), to the right of .deb, select ARM

NOTE: The other .deb versions are for 64-bit operating systems. The default Raspberry Pi image is 32-bit

When the download completes, click on the downloaded file an select to install. If prompted, enter your password to confirm

When installation is finished, go to the start menu and select Programming | Visual Studio Code

Command Line Instructions

If you wish to install via command line, copy/paste the following into the command line (inspired by instructions at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux)

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y code