Step-by-step – VSCodium CentOS 8.x/Stream-8 Installation

GNU/Linux CentOS 8.x/Stream-8 Installing VSCodium – QuickStart Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install VSCodium IDE in CentOS 8.x/Stream-8 GNU/Linux Desktop.

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 Red Hat Linux 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. 1. Accessing Shell

   Open a Terminal window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   
   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.