Installing Visual Studio Code (VSCode) on Manjaro linux

Install from AUR (Method # 1)

1- Acquire build files from Arch Linux user repository.

$ curl -L -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/visual-studio-code-bin.tar.gz

2- Extract the downloaded package

$ tar -xvf visual-studio-code-bin.tar.gz

3- Change directory to the extracted package

$ cd visual-studio-code-bin

4- Build and install the package

$ makepkg -si

Install using Yaourt (Method # 2)

It will be a two-step process. First, we will install Yaourt, then use it to install VS Code.

Installing Yaourt

Edit Pacman configuration file to include the repository for Yaourt

$ sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

Add the following lines at the end of the file and save it

[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

Now refresh the repository database and install Yaourt

$ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt

Installing VS Code

Yaourt makes installing VS Code pretty easy, we just have to execute the following command.

$ sudo yaourt visual-studio-code-bin

Increasing NOFILE limit

During installation, you might get an error due to the limit on the number of files opened by a process.
To check the limit, use the following command:

$ ulimit -n

To increase the limit, add the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf file.

<username>	soft	nofile	10000
<username>	hard	nofile	10000

Don’t forget to replace <username> with the logged in user’s name and also restart the machine for the change to take effort.

Links

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code-bin