Hi!
Now that I have my amazing Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM, it’s time to see how serious the device is. So, I decided to install and use some developers’ tools in the RPi. My dev list will be something like this
- Python
- Some ML and AI Python packages
- GIT
- Arduino
- Visual Studio Code
It’s been a while since I installed VSCode in the device. The last time I did this, I needed to download the code from GitHub and compile the tool in the Raspberry Pi. As far as I remember this was a +25 min process.
Lucky for us the process can now be much simpler, thanks to Headmelted (see references). Now, we only need a single command to install VSCode:
. <( wget -O - https://code.headmelted.com/installers/apt.sh )
Install process started! Or Maybe not because I found this amazing GPG error
pi@rpidev3:~ $ curl -L https://code.headmelted.com/installers/apt.sh | sudo bash
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2349 0 2349 0 0 19739 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 19906
Detecting architecture…
Ensuring curl is installed
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
curl is already the newest version (7.64.0-4).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
python3-pyperclip python3-thonny rpi.gpio-common
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Architecture detected as armv7l…
Retrieving GPG key headmelted…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
Removing any previous entry to headmelted repository
Installing [headmelted] repository…
Updating APT cache…
Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
Get:3 https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/debian stretch InRelease [23.4 kB]
Err:3 https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/debian stretch InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0CC3FD642696BFC8
Reading package lists…
W: GPG error: https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/debian stretch InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0CC3FD642696BFC8
E: The repository 'https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/debian stretch InRelease' is not signed.
Done!
Repository install complete.
Installing Visual Studio Code from [stretch]…
Reading package lists… Done
E: The value 'stretch' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
Visual Studio Code install failed.
There a public GPG key used to verify the package and the SH script somehow does not download it (I think the ARM RPI version is still not defined). So, before the previous command, I need to run this command
wget https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/gpgkey -O - | sudo apt-key add –
Then run this command
curl -L https://code.headmelted.com/installers/apt.sh | sudo bash
Now we have Visual Studio Code installed!
But, yes another but, you may note that the tool open and display a black window. Again, I need to go deeper on the details, but the latest version does not work well. There is some context information on GitHub (see references), and the proposed solution is to rollback to a previous version
sudo apt-get install code-oss=1.29.0-1539702286
And we also need to disable the automatic updates on this tool
sudo apt-mark hold code-oss
The following command will remove the hold for Visual Studio Code
sudo apt-mark unhold code-oss
And now, yes, we got a fully functional Visual Studio Code in our Raspberry Pi!
Another update, is a command to run VSCode as root
# open VSCode in default source code folder with root
sudo code-oss --user-data-dir=/home/pi/src/vsCodeUsrData
Of course this is not the best way to use VSCode, however something it helps 😀
Note: Due some Deep Neural Network and docker process, my device is starting to heat a lot, so I’ll try a next generation cooler like this one: Blink Blink ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi (Support Pi 4)
Happy Coding!
Greetings @ Toronto
El Bruno
References
- Headmelted, Community Builds for Visual Studio Code https://code.headmelted.com/
- Jay Rogers, Headmelted https://github.com/headmelted
- GitHub, can’t get code-oss to launch raspberry pi 3b https://github.com/headmelted/codebuilds/issues/67
- Blink Blink ICE Tower CPU Cooling Fan for Raspberry Pi https://www.seeedstudio.com/Blink-Blink-ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Raspberry-Pi-Support-Pi-4-p-4215.html
My posts on El Bruno
- How to install .Net Core in a Raspberry Pi 4 and test with HelloWorld https://elbruno.com/2019/08/27/raspberrypi-how-to-install-dotnetcore-in-a-raspberrypi4-and-test-with-helloworld-of-course/
- Installing Visual Studio Code in a Raspberry Pi https://elbruno.com/2019/08/20/vscode-installing-visual-studio-code-in-a-raspberrypi-a-couple-of-lessons-learned-code/
- Build and Run C# ,NetCore projects in a Raspberry Pi 4 with Visual Studio Code https://elbruno.com/2019/08/28/vscode-build-and-run-c-dotnetcore-projects-in-raspberrypi/
- Let’s do some Git dev in Raspberry Pi 4 (GitHub and Azure DevOps!) https://elbruno.com/2019/09/02/vscode-lets-do-some-git-dev-in-raspberrypi-github-and-azure-devops/
- How to install Docker in a Raspberry Pi 4 https://elbruno.com/2019/09/17/vscode-how-to-install-docker-in-a-raspberrypi-4/
- Where is my Task Manager in RaspberryPi? Let’s try HTop, https://elbruno.com/2019/09/23/raspberrypi-where-is-my-task-manager-lets-try-htop/
- Multi-monitor in Raspberry Pi 4 rocks ! https://elbruno.com/2019/09/30/raspberrypi-multimonitor-support-in-raspberrypi4-rocks/
