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Xelphin
Xelphin

Reputation: 349

How to update VSCode on Ubuntu -2021

I have VSCode on Xubuntu I can't seem to figure out how to update VScode, it keeps putting a notification to update at the bottom right but on the 'update' button it just sends a link to the main VScode page (https://code.visualstudio.com/). However I don't know if it just re downloads and if it is incorrectt. How do you update it correctly?

(I have tried some 'sudo ...' from the internet but they didn't work for me and I wonder if it is because it is outdated)

Thank you

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5550

Answers (3)

Jonathas Batista
Jonathas Batista

Reputation: 1

Use --only-upgrade flag

sudo apt --only-upgrade install code

Upvotes: 0

Nelson Sammy
Nelson Sammy

Reputation: 458

To update all applications on my machine,

sudo apt update

For Ubuntu hirsute 21.04, this is not working anymore. To update vscode, run the following commands;

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install code

Upvotes: 1

Xelphin
Xelphin

Reputation: 349

For those who installed through .deb

So apparently I needed to setup an apt repository: You can find instructions on how to add the apt repository here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux#_debian-and-ubuntu-based-distributions

I followed the "Debian and Ubuntu based distributions" chapter and did the alternative method they offered so:

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg

sudo apt install apt-transport-https
sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

And then finally as people have recommended:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

And this time it does update it! :)

(I must have not done this setup when installing .deb)

Upvotes: 8

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