Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is an open-source, cross-platform code editor. It provides built-in debugging support, code completion, integrated terminal syntax highlighting, embedded Git control, code refactoring, and snippets.

The following are the steps to install Visual Studio Code on CentOS/AlmaLinux.

Step 1: Import the Microsoft GPG key with this command:

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

Step 2: Create the repo file as below to enable the Visual Studio Code repository:

# sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo

Step 3: Add the below-given content in the 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

Step 4: Save and exit the vscode.repo.

Step 5: Install the latest version of Visual Studio Code with this command:

# sudo yum install code

Visual Studio Code is installed on your CentOS/AlmaLinux; now you can open it from Applications -> Programming -> Visual Studio Code.

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