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[Notes] Install Visual Studio Code on WSL / Ubuntu on Windows 10
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Collated info from various github issues

It is useful to run code --verbose until you get things working.

  1. First install Xming / alternative, add export DISPLAY=:0.0 to your ~/.bashrc

  2. Install the vs code package

  3. sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0 libxss1 libasound2 libgl1-mesa-glx

  4. Solve GLX issues by following microsoft/vscode#3451 (comment)

If you have Pulseaudio installed from other packages, you're gonna want this package: https://launchpad.net/~therealkenc/+archive/ubuntu/wsl-pulseaudio

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