

You can follow my Youtube Video tutorial for step-step instructions.Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. Related post: How to install Linux Apps on a ChromebookĪlright that’s how you can turn your Chromebook into a Coding Machine. You can read through the documentation on how to install additional Visual Studio Plugins or dependencies for your language. If you want to develop Python applications, you will need to install Python3, PIP along with other libraries suitable for your needs. To install Node.js, you’ll need to install Node Package Manager(nvm) which should help you install the appropriate Node.js version. For instance to start developing Javascript applications, you will most likely need Node.js. To start developing applications in your programming language of choice, you will need to install additional dependencies specific to that language. You can start it by searching for it in the application launcher. In a few seconds, Visual studio code will be installed on your Chromebook. Once, you have downloaded the right file to your Chromebook, simply double click on it. So as a combination, if you have a Debian-based Linux container running on an Intel-based Chromebook, then you should download. Run the command dpkg –print-architecture in the Linux terminal to find out our CPU variant. So for Intel/AMD Chromebooks, go with the 64bit file while for ARM CPUs, you’ll have to download ARM64 file.

Chromebooks come in Intel/AMD 64bit CPUs and ARM-based CPUs. Next you should know your Chromebook’s CPU architecture. The default is penguin which is based on Debian. So you should know the Linux container that you installed on your Chromebook. deb file for Ubuntu or Debian-based Linux distros and. Since you’ll installing Visual Studio on a Linux container running on your Chromebook, check the Linux files. There are various files for Windows, Mac and Linux. To get started, download the appropriate file from the visual studio website. If you have done that, now you are ready to install and setup Visual studio on your Chromebook. GNOME Keyring is a collection of components in GNOME that store secrets, passwords, keys and certificates. You can also install the optional (but strongly recommended) dependency gnome-keyring.

To enable Linux on your Chromebook, go to Settings > Advanced > Developers > Enable Linux development environment. We already did a post on how to setup Linux on Chromebook. I am currently using a Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Go.

You can install Linux on any Chromebook released in the last 2-3 years.
