VSCodium Installation Guide

VSCodium is a free and open-source binary distribution of VS Code without Microsoft branding or telemetry.

Installation

Ubuntu/Debian

# Add GPG key
wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/vscodium.gpg

# Add repository
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium.gpg] https://paulcarroty.com/vscodium-deb/debian/ vscodium main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list

# Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y vscodium

Fedora

# Add repository
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/-/raw/master/rpm/vscodium.repo

# Install
sudo dnf install -y vscodium

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S vscodium

Verification

vscodium --version
codium --version

Notes

  • VSCodium uses different extension marketplace IDs than VS Code
  • Install extensions from Open VSX Registry instead of Microsoft Marketplace
  • All settings and extensions are stored in ~/.vscode-oss/