Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi

You can run Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi devices.

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By downloading and using Visual Studio Code, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement.

Installation

Visual Studio Code is officially distributed via the Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian) APT repository, in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.

You can install it by running:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install code

Updates

Your Raspberry Pi should handle updating VS Code in the same way as other packages on the system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade code

You can always check when a new release is available in our Updates page.

Next steps

Once you have installed VS Code, these topics will help you learn more about it:

01/29/2021