Install Visual Studio Code OSS to Debian Wheezy

Playing with Debian Wheezy	URL
Atom	http://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/7835e3d110d7ad79c407
VSCode OSS	http://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/8eb3f57373bac0f10d6f
Skype	http://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/1b1d733e4ede8593040f
Meshlab 2016	http://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/5e02ce18d162e17c8859

Visual Studio Code provides debian package, but it requires libc6 >=2.15, which is not the case of Debian Wheezy. So we have to compile it from the source code.

Shorter way

• Go to https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g9ky5opxbiey60t/AADqD8v5Yc_quPvk9VRKtgVSa debian code-oss_1.14.2.deb

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• Uploaded 1.14.2 binary
• Since migrating to Stretch is planned, this will be my final binary upload.

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• Uploaded 1.14.1 binary
• This build enables MarketPlace (see below).
• To fix build: I have done:
  1. To fix ECONNRESET 191.238.172.191:443 issue, I removed ms-vscode.node-debug(2) from build/gulpfile.vscode.js. Please install from MarketPlace.
     • https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/29487
  2. In extensions/vscode-api-tests/src/workspace.test.ts, I disabled findFiles test to deal with Property 'timeout' does not exist on type 'ITest' issue.

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• Uploaded 1.13.1 binary

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• I saw NODE_MODULE_VERSION issue.
• electron-rebuild might be required.

sudo npm install electron-rebuild -g
electron-rebuild

./scripts/npm.sh install --arch=x64
node --max_old_space_size=2048 /usr/bin/gulp vscode-linux-x64
node --max_old_space_size=2048 /usr/bin/gulp vscode-linux-x64-build-deb

Prerequisites

• nodejs (unlike the case of atom, clang-3.4 is not required maybe?)
• https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
• gulp is also required.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo npm install gulp -g # for packaging

Building

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
cd vscode
git tag
git checkout 1.14.1 # use the latest "release" from git tag
./scripts/npm.sh install --arch=x64
node --max_old_space_size=2048 /usr/bin/gulp vscode-linux-x64
node --max_old_space_size=2048 /usr/bin/gulp vscode-linux-x64-build-deb
sudo dpkg -i .build/linux/deb/amd64/deb/code-oss*.deb

Extensions

Newer way

• In building, add this snippet to product.json.

"extensionsGallery": {
    "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
    "cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index",
    "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items"
}

• For existing installation, edit /usr/share/code-oss/resources/app/product.json.
• Acknowledgements: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/23831

Older (primitive) way

• Since this is the OSS version, Extension Marketplace is disabled.
• You have to install extentions manually.

1. Search for the extension in marketplace ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/ )
2. Convert the URI ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=... ) and version to file URI (use a small Ruby (1.9 compatible) script below)
3. Download the file
4. Install it via code-oss --install-extension file.vsix

show_vsix_uri.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
#acknowledgement: http://www.usagi1975.com/26jan171624/
#after downloading the specified URI, use: code --install-extension
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
uri=URI.parse(ARGV[0])
http=Net::HTTP.new(uri.host,uri.port)
http.use_ssl=true
json=http.start{
  resp=http.get(uri.path+'?'+uri.query)
  JSON.parse(resp.body.split('<script class="vss-extension"')[1].split('</script>')[0].split('>')[1])
}
puts "wget -O #{json['extensionName']}_#{json['versions'][0]['version']}.vsix https://#{json['publisher']['publisherName']}.gallery.vsassets.io/_apis/public/gallery/publisher/#{json['publisher']['publisherName']}/extension/#{json['extensionName']}/#{json['versions'][0]['version']}/assetbyname/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSIXPackage"