From d1adafac84a6ec202d5cb73e8fce5b5e331b76d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: The Oracle Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 03:05:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] update to include flatpak support --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c4d36d5..6f64dde 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ You can always install using the downloads (deb, rpm, tar) on the [releases page VSCodium is available in [AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository) as package [vscodium-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vscodium-bin/), maintained by [@plague-doctor](https://github.com/plague-doctor). #### Flatpak Option (Linux) -VSCodium is not available as a Flatpak app, but [@amtlib-dot-dll](https://github.com/amtlib-dot-dll) has done significant work to package up the open source build of Visual Studio Code without telemetry, very similarly to VSCodium. That package is available [here](https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.visualstudio.code.oss) and the build repo is [here](https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss). +VSCodium is available as a Flatpak app, thanks to Peter Squicciarini who has packaged VSCodium. That package is available [here](https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.vscodium.codium) and the build repo is [here](https://github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium). if your distrobution has support for [flatpak](https://flathub.org), and you have enabled the [flathub repo](https://flatpak.org/setup/): +```bash +flatpak install flathub com.vscodium.codium + +flatpak run com.vscodium.codium +``` ## Why Does This Exist This repository contains build files to generate free release binaries of Microsoft's VSCode. When we speak of "free software", we're talking about freedom, not price.