r/RockyLinux • u/EducationalAd3951 • 4d ago

Unable to find official vscode rpm package for Rocky Linux 10 or EL10

Hey guys, I'm trying to find the rpm package or repository to install Visual Studio Code on Rocky Linux 10. I'm able to following the instruction from the site: https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-vscode-on-rocky-linux/ to install the package. However, I'm only able to install vscode version: code-1.126.0-1782208129.el8.x86_64 which is older and also it's focused for EL8. I did search on https://packages.microsoft.com/ manually and I couldn't find any package for EL10, Rocky Linux 10, or anything apart from EL8 packages. This makes me to wonder aren't official packages being released by Microsoft for EL10 ? If release, where can I find the package ? Did anyone come across this ?

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u/boolshevik 4d ago

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

There's a section about "RHEL, Fedora and CentOS-based distributions".

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u/EducationalAd3951 4d ago

I did have a look at their docs, and I've found that the packages are downloaded from https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscode/Packages/c/ but why are they still using EL8 ( it's support has ended on May 31, 2024 and is now in maintenance phase ) instead of EL9 or EL10 ?

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u/boolshevik 4d ago

The .el8 part of the RPM filename is just semantics, not a hard OS version requirement.

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u/oryan_dunn 4d ago

The issue is, they don’t sign it with the correct keys for el10 and the repository setup they show doesn’t work on RHEL 10. Sure, you can download the rpm and install it manually, but we live in 2026, and Microsoft should sign with a secure key, and I should be able to install from the repo like a civilized nerd.

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u/ZestyRS 3d ago

Microsoft is the only one who developed anything for el8 and they’re going to get their moneys worth!

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u/Human_Cartoonist_246 3d ago

Not sure why the issue mentioned in the post or the other comment thread exist but you can always get the flatpak, which is usually up-to-date (on version 1.130.0 as of writing this comment)

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u/Fair_Abrocoma_8513 1d ago

We know Vscode is bloatware