Install Visual Studio Code on Fedora 42/41/40/39

Question: How can perform the installation of Visual Studio Code on Fedora Linux machine?. This guide is a reference for the installation of the Visual Studio Code on Fedora. Visual Studio Code is a popular source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

Visual Studio Code packages for Fedora Linux are available on an RPM repository maintained by Microsoft. But you need to import GPG key and add the repository before doing the actual installation of VS Code on Fedora.

Import repository GPG key into your system.

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

Once done, add VS Code repository contents to your Fedora Linux.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo
[code]
name=Visual Studio Code
baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
EOF

Next we update the package cache index before the package installation.

sudo dnf check-update

Install Visual Studio Code on Fedora Desktop Linux machine.

$ sudo dnf install code
.....
Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 102 M
Installed size: 290 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Package details such as version number can be checked with:

$ rpm -qi code
Name        : code
Version     : 1.100.2
Release     : 1747260629.el8
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Tue 20 May 2025 05:38:08 PM EAT
Group       : Development/Tools
Size        : 422842066
License     : Multiple, see https://code.visualstudio.com/license
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 15 May 2025 01:15:02 AM EAT, Key ID eb3e94adbe1229cf
Source RPM  : code-1.100.2-1747260629.el8.src.rpm
Build Date  : Thu 15 May 2025 01:10:32 AM EAT
Build Host  : 66f29bd9c000004
Packager    : Visual Studio Code Team <[email protected]>
Vendor      : Microsoft Corporation
URL         : https://code.visualstudio.com/
Summary     : Code editing. Redefined.
....

To Launch VS Code on Fedora, run:

$ code

Or search from activities menu.

You should get VS Code welcome window.

Enjoy your development with Visual Studio Code on Fedora. Check a comprehensive guide on how to use VS Code. Watching Introductory Videos should also help you get started.