How to install VSCodium in Fedora 33

November 3, 2020 One minute read

Linux • Fedora • VSCodium • VSCode • Visual Studio Code • Codium

Intro

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode.

Why VSCodium?

Microsoft’s VSCode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. More information on this is available at VSCodium official website.

Add Repository

First of all, you will need to add the GPG key of the repository:

sudo rpm --import https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg

Then, add the repository:

printf "[gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo]\nname=gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo\nbaseurl=https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/rpms/\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\nrepo_gpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg" |sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/vscodium.repo

Now, you can install the package using DNF:

sudo dnf install codium

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