Package Details: visual-studio-code-bin 1.117.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: visual-studio-code-bin
Description: Visual Studio Code (vscode): Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications (official binary version)
Upstream URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Licenses: custom: commercial
Conflicts: code
Provides: code, vscode
Submitter: dcelasun
Maintainer: dcelasun
Last Packager: dcelasun
Votes: 1658
Popularity: 33.48
First Submitted: 2017-12-18 19:14 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-04-22 13:54 (UTC)

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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-23 13:07 (UTC) by dcelasun)

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  • What is the difference between this package and the one in the community repo?

This is the official binary distribution from Microsoft. The one in the community repo is an unofficial build made from source. Beyond the licence difference and branding, there are some proprietary features not available in the open-source version.

  • There is a new version out, why is the package not updated?

This package depends on both the official tarball and files from GitHub. Please check this page AND this page before flagging as out-of-date. If the new version isn't on both pages, this package cannot be updated! If you can see the new version on both pages, but the AUR package is still not updated, flag it and give it time. It's usually done within hours.

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Sometimes AUR helpers do weird things. Download the tarball and install it manually with makepkg -si. If that works, report the problem to your AUR helper's upstream, not here.

  • When I install this package xdg-open uses vscode, not my file manager! How do I fix this?

Install shared-mime-info-gnome gnome-session which now includes mimemapps.

  • Why is $X a dependency? I don't like it.

Just because $X is not required to open the app, doesn't mean there is nothing that depends on it. Always search the comment history on AUR to see if that dependency has been previously discussed before writing your own comment. Still nothing? Then use namcap to make sure it's really not needed. If namcap doesn't complain, please leave a comment here and I'll investigate.

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huebi commented on 2026-04-16 12:56 (UTC)

Since https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code-bin?O=70#comment-1032100 the native window titlebar is no longer working with wayland and KDE/Plasma.

Nowaker commented on 2026-04-16 07:18 (UTC)

JS.Siggen5.44590 isn't a real threat. It prints an anti-war message in Russian timezones. Russian antivirus vendors (Dr.Web and Kaspersky) have incorrectly classified this package as malware. Slava Ukraini.

alersrt commented on 2026-04-16 06:13 (UTC)

Latest release is infected with JS.Siggen5.44590.

dcelasun commented on 2026-04-15 13:40 (UTC)

Yes, likely a caching issue with AUR's CDN and/or scraper protection.

karabaja4 commented on 2026-04-15 13:39 (UTC)

Hmm, for some reason "Download snapshot" in the top right still downloads 1.115.0-1 for me. Anyone else have that issue? Git clone works correctly.

dcelasun commented on 2026-04-15 11:55 (UTC)

Thanks, everyone. Version 1.116.0 is out, and I commented out the setuid line and left a comment for anyone using kernels without user namespaces. If you are using linux or linux-lts you're not affected.

MrAnno commented on 2026-04-14 20:00 (UTC)

Oh, this is probably it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65655

MrAnno commented on 2026-04-14 19:59 (UTC)

@dcelasun Thanks for the quick answer. I guess this is for people who disable user namespaces. Not sure how common that is, since it would break pretty much all container and sandboxing tools.

dcelasun commented on 2026-04-14 19:34 (UTC)

Thanks for those links. There's been many comments over the years about having to manually set the setuid bit and I was just reminded of it today when looking at Discord's PKGBUILD in the Arch repos, so I added it.

If we're sure vscode's Electron version doesn't require it at all, I can remove it with the next update.

gtsiam commented on 2026-04-14 18:40 (UTC) (edited on 2026-04-14 18:42 (UTC) by gtsiam)

AFAICT the setuid sandbox is now just a fallback (reddit, chromium bug). Chrome now just uses unprivileged namespaces for sandboxing, which would work in arch kernels.

What issue is this fixing? Was there any indication that the sandbox was failing that led to this change?

Given that chromeos removed the setuid bit from chrome-sandbox in 2018 (chromeos bug), we should probably drop it as well.

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