Add Visual Studio Code / vscode as an app about pi-apps HOT 11 CLOSED

The nice thing about Pi-Apps is that it doesn't actually include any source code from any of the apps it installs.
There is no way Pi-Apps could be involved in a lawsuit because it's not actually distributing any apps, but bash scripts that download an app when you click Install.

I am not familiar with VS code, so if someone were to make an app that I could just add, that would be really nice.

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Yeah, but, Pi-Apps is better than PiKiss so we should add this regardless. ;)

OK I've tried out the headmelted thing and it seems to work well.
I will also try the stock VS Studio Code and compare differences.

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The nice thing about Pi-Apps is that it doesn't actually include any source code from any of the apps it installs.
There is no way Pi-Apps could be involved in a lawsuit because it's not actually distributing any apps, but bash scripts that download an app when you click Install.

I wasn't meaning that there would be a lawsuit around installing Visual Studio code, I was wondering: Is pi-apps only for installing OSS apps? Because Visual Studio Code isn't open source, although the base repo vscode is.

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Oh, I see what you were asking, as the README mentions "open-source software". What I mean is: Pi-Apps is only for software that is not available in the RPi repositories.
So if you can install it with sudo apt install, then it can't be added to Pi-Apps.

Yes, VS Code is eligible to be added. I don't like the headmelted version, so we'll go with Microsoft's release.
As it's a deb file, this should be really easy.

wget https://aka.ms/linux-armhf-deb -O visual-studio.deb
sudo dpkg -i visual-studio.deb
rm visual-studio.deb

And then for uninstall:

sudo apt purge code

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Actually, theres a armhf and a arm64 version of VScode. https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads.

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Oh, I see what you were asking, as the README mentions "open-source software". What I mean is: Pi-Apps is only for software that is not available in the RPi repositories.
So if you can install it with sudo apt install, then it can't be added to Pi-Apps.

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying. In that case, would you consider adding the Docker install to Pi-Apps as well, since the recommended method is by script instead of by apt-get? If so I'll open another issue.

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Visual Studio Code.zip

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Visual Studio Code.zip

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Thanks. One question: why do you have it downloading a static deb file from mediafire?
Wouldn't it be better to download https://aka.ms/linux-armhf-deb or https://aka.ms/linux-arm64-deb directly from Microsoft?
This way, VS will remain up-to-date. Every time MS uploads a new deb file, we don't have to change any links, as the links I suggested above will always point to the latest version.

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Oh, wait Microsoft has direct download links to the files? I tried copying the link of the download buttons on the page but it didn't work out. You can just add the links in and commit it then.

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OK. VS Code has been added with commit 03627d9

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