Visual Studio Code snap not working

LeaAnthony

It appears that the vscode snap installs just fine but running it does nothing. I've tried running from terminal and it just exists quickly showing nothing. The only reason I'm not using the eopkg version is that I need remote-ssh extension which won't work on the oss version. This was working fine up until today. I've tried reinstalling, removing ~/.vscode and I still can't get it to work. Has anyone else seen this? Is there a better way to install VSC official?

minh

I use the package from VsCode download page (.tar.gz), then create a desktop file

nano .local/share/applications/vscode.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Visual Studio Code
Comment=Code Editing. Redefined.
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/home/minh/VSCode-linux-x64/bin/code --no-sandbox --unity-launch %F
Icon=/home/minh/VSCode-linux-x64/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=VSCode
Categories=Utility;TextEditor;Development;IDE;
MimeType=text/plain;inode/directory;
Actions=new-empty-window;
Keywords=vscode;

[Desktop Action new-empty-window]
Name=New Empty Window
Exec=/home/minh/VSCode-linux-x64/bin/code --no-sandbox --new-window %F
Icon=/home/minh/VSCode-linux-x64/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png

This is the folder where i extracted the files /home/minh/VSCode-linux-x64

palto42

I also use the binary package since both the Snap as well as the open source version from the Solus repository have some restrictions (small or big depends on your use case...).

gnomo223

I also got this problem

palto42

I'm using a small script to easily update VS Code for tar.gz binary

amirhosseinak20

palto42 HI, thanks for your script. how can i start vscode binaries from terminal, should i make an alias for it or ... .

minh

I steal your script 😀

gnomo223

Me too kkkk. I only have one question, i need to create a "file.sh" and introduce your sript via nano ?

palto42

gnomo223 Below the script you can right-click on the view raw and then "Save target as.." (simpler than copy & paste to nano). Same for the .desktop files which you need to save in ~/.local/share/applications/ .

gnomo223

Broo! I'd love your script, just tried to adapt to my notebook, thanks man, it worked well.

palto42

amirhosseinak20 From terminal you can start VScode with /home/user/bin/VSCode-linux-x64/code --no-sandbox (replace the path with your installation folder).
I have a symlink in my /home/user/bin folder and this folde in the PATH, but you can also add an alias.

over-core

palto42 Hi, these scripts is what I was looking for. Snaps do not work reliably and OSS version of VSCode can't access remote dev servers via ssh due to some license limitations. Proprietary binaries can do it, but there's hassle with updating.

palto42

One of the issues with current Snap packages is the restrictions it has on file system access, see discussion on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1643706, which makes it essentially unusable for some use cases.

amaineaffair

why would something as basic as vscode be so well ateup I mean its a core pack.