Use a Package Manager

Install with Brew (Mac)

If you are on a Mac and have Homebrew installed:

brew cask install vscodium

Note for Mac OS X Mojave users: if you see “App can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software” when opening VSCodium the first time, you can right-click the application and choose Open. This should only be required the first time opening on Mojave.

Install with Windows Package Manager (WinGet)

If you use Windows and have Windows Package Manager installed:

winget install vscodium

Install with Chocolatey (Windows)

If you use Windows and have Chocolatey installed (thanks to @Thilas):

choco install vscodium

Install with Scoop (Windows)

If you use Windows and have Scoop installed:

scoop bucket add extras

scoop install vscodium

Install with Package Manager (Linux)

Parrot OS:

VSCodium is pre-installed in Parrot OS.

In case you don’t find it by default, you can retrieve it from the official Parrot repo

sudo apt update && sudo apt install vscodium

@paulcarroty has set up a repository for VSCodium here. The instructions below are adapted from there. Any issues installing VSCodium using your package manager should be directed to that repository’s issue tracker.

Debian / Ubuntu (deb package):

Add the GPG key of the repository:

wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Add the repository:

echo 'deb https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs/ vscodium main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list

Update then install vscodium:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install codium

Fedora / Centos / OpenSUSE (rpm package):

Add the GPG key of the repository:

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

Add the repository:

Fedora/RHEL : printf "[gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo]

name=gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo

baseurl=https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/rpms/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

repo_gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg" |sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/vscodium.repo

: openSUSE/SUSE: printf "[gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo]

name=gitlab.com_paulcarroty_vscodium_repo

baseurl=https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/rpms/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

repo_gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/master/pub.gpg" |sudo tee -a /etc/zypp/repos.d/vscodium.repo

Install the software:

Fedora/RHEL : sudo dnf install codium

: OpenSUSE/SUSE: sudo zypper in codium

Nix(OS)

VSCodium is available in Nixpkgs. You can install it by adding vscodium to environment.systemPackages in configuration.nix , or locally:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.vscodium

Arch Linux

VSCodium is available on the AUR (Arch User Repository) here, and can be installed with an AUR Helper.

Examples:

Aura : sudo aura -A vscodium-bin

: Yay: yay -S vscodium-bin

Flatpak Option (Linux)

VSCodium is (unofficially) available as a Flatpak app here and the build repo is here. If your distribution has support for flatpak, and you have enabled the flathub repo: