- First get commit id
- Download vscode server from url:
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable
- Upload the
vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
to server - Unzip the downloaded
vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
to~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}
without vscode-server-linux-x64 dir - Create
0
file under~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}
commit_id=f06011ac164ae4dc8e753a3fe7f9549844d15e35
# Download url is: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable
curl -sSL "https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable" -o vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
mkdir -p ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}
# assume that you upload vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz to /tmp dir
tar zxvf /tmp/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id} --strip 1
touch ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}/0
– or –
See this Gist download-vs-code-server for a more complete shell script that will also get the latest released commit SHA (from GitHub) so you do not need to supply it yourself.
[edited to add helpful comment in case comments disappear later:]
You can replace commit:<commit>
with latest
to get the latest release build. Example: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/latest/server-linux-x64/stable
. Respects indicated quality i.e, stable
, insider
. – Doom5