Ubuntu – Error while installing Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 14.04

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I've been trying to install MS Visual Studio Code after it was announced today, on my Ubuntu 14.04 computer. I've read the official docs and setup from Microsoft and I've read an answer to a question on this forum that asks for the installation process of Visual Studio Code.

But my question is specific, when I attempt to extract the downloaded zipped file to a new folder (as suggested by Microsoft), I get this error.

Even when I skip the extract to another folder process and directly double click on Code, I still get the same error.

EDIT:

Unzipped from command line. It looks like everything was unzipped, but then when I double click on Code, nothing happens at all.

If I try to run Code through the terminal instead, I get this, and nothing else happens –

5195:0430/005338:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(170)] Running without the SUID sandbox! 
See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on. 
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment

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Best Answer

cd to the directory where you have downloaded VSCode-linux-x64.zip and run unzip VSCode-linux-x64.zip -d ./vscode to extract the contents of downloaded .zip file to a folder vscode. I did it and it did not give me any error. I could not run it by clicking Code because I am getting -bash: ./Code: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error, mostly because I am using 32-bit linux.

EDIT: Since you said you are getting default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment error, try installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer by sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer. It might help.

Update

VSCode is now available as DEB file. You can download it and then run:

sudo dpkg -i ~/path/to/code_1.XXX.deb

In case dpkg complains about missing dependencies, run:

sudo apt -f install

afterwards to fix the problem.

Old answer

Download Visual Studio Code for Linux
Extract it: unzip VSCode-linux-x64.zip -d ~/path/to/VSCode
Run the code executable to open Visual Studio Code
(Optional) Create a symbolic link to conveniently run code from the terminal:
sudo ln -s /path/to/VSCode/code /usr/local/bin/code

Source (install instructions): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

Ubuntu – How to wrap text/comments in Visual Studio Code

File > Preferences > Settings

New Setting UI (Searchable ?) ? ? ?

Just Search Wrap / Word Wrap

editor.wordWrap: "off" - Lines will never wrap. editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width
editor.wordWrap: "on" - Lines will wrap at viewport width.
editor.wordWrap: "wordWrapColumn" - Lines will wrap at the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.
editor.wordWrap: "bounded" - Lines will wrap at the minimum of viewport width and the value of editor.wordWrapColumn.

References: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_word-wrap-settings-redesign and info from @jermila-dhas

Deprecated (For History Purpose/How JSON setting should look like)

File > Preferences > User Settings

For Beginner

Paste the following in settings.json

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{       "editor.wrappingColumn": 0 }

That it, it is that simpler, but probably we will having someone open source user interface for json settings.

For Intermediate User

If you already have settings.json, just add

"editor.wrappingColumn": 0

As the settings is in JSON, last settings are without the comma , and setting is ending with } as you see in Default settings and the settings.json overide all the Default settings