What is VSCodium?
VSCodium is a clone of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. The project’s sole aim is to provide you with ready to use binaries without Microsoft’s telemetry and tracking code. -https://vscodium.com/
Installing Docker
- Log into the Linux Docker host and run the following commands in a terminal window
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
# add docker gpg key
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# add docker software repository
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
# install docker
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
# enable and start docker service
sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
# add the current user to the docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
# reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
su - $USER
Running VSCodium
- Continue with the following commands in a terminal window
# list current uid and gid, note these for later
id $user
# create working directories
mkdir ~/docker/vscodium/{config,code} -p
# run the vscodium docker image
# replace PUID, GUID with the output of the id $user command above
docker run -d --name=vscodium --cap-add=IPC_LOCK -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=America/New_York -p 8003:3000 -v ~/docker/vscodium/config:/config -v ~/docker/vscodium/code:/code --shm-size="1gb" --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/vscodium:latest
- Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8003
- Welcome to VSCodium
Source: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/vscodium