NOTE: You can now get official VSCode downloads for arm64/armhf from Microsoft
Versions from v1.51.1 in the package repository are now the official Microsoft versions.
https://packagecloud.io/swift-arm/vscode
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/swift-arm/vscode/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install code-oss
sudo apt-get install git python gcc g++ make libx11-dev libxkbfile-dev fakeroot rpm libsecret-1-dev
Python or (python2) is not included anymore in Ubuntu 20.04. The python package is no longer available. To install and use python2 as "python" you need to install "python-is-python2".
sudo apt install python-is-python2
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
The default version of nodejs on Ubuntu 20.04 is v10.19.0 so it is not necessary to add the nodesource.
sudo apt install nodejs npm
curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode.git
cd vscode
git checkout 1.44.2
wget https://github.com/futurejones/code-oss-aarch64/raw/master/patches/v1.44.2/add_extensions.patch
git apply add_extensions.patch
yarn && yarn run gulp vscode-linux-arm64 && yarn run gulp vscode-linux-arm64-build-deb
You will find the .deb install package in .build/linux/deb/arm64/deb/
Install using apt packet manager.
sudo apt install -y ./.build/linux/deb/arm64/deb/code-oss_*_arm64.deb