Installing Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu

The process for installing VS Code on Ubuntu has a few extra steps, but is still relatively simple. First, download the .deb file from VS Code's download page (https://code.visualstudio.com/Download). Once the download completes, run the following commands to complete the installation:

# Change directories to the Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads

# Replace <file> with the name of the downloaded file
sudo dpkg -i <file>.deb

# Complete installation
sudo apt-get install -f

If you get a missing dependency error, you can fix it by running the following command before sudo dpkg:

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4
sudo apt --fix-broken install

You should now be able to open VS Code from the Launcher.