GNU/Linux CentOS 8/Stream Installing VSCodium – Step by step Guide
How to Install VSCodium IDE on CentOS 8/Stream GNU/Linux desktop – Step by step Tutorial.
And VSCodium for CentOS is a Community-driven, Freely-licensed Binary Distribution of Microsoft’s Editor VSCode.
Because Microsoft’s VSCode Source Code is Open Source (MIT-licensed), but the Product available for download Visual Studio Code is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking!
So instead these VSCode Binaries built instead are licensed under the MIT License and Telemetry is disabled.
So this Guide is Valid also for All the others RHEL Based Distros like:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Oracle Enterprise Linux
- Rocky Linux
- AlmaLinux
Finally, this guide includes detailed instructions about to Visual Studio to VSCodium Migration.

1. Accessing Shell
Open a Terminal window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
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