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Flatpak-warning running an unofficial Flatpak version of Visual Studio Code

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, shell
Domain
desktop, devtools

Research direction

The report names no repository files, tests, or concrete change. Start by reproducing the warning from the Flatpak installation described, then clarify the intended behavior and identify the relevant project entry point; done would require an agreed change and a regression check.

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Description

am getting this txt file warning on opening the flatpak from ubuntu app store after installing it through flatpak cli


https://www.flathub.org


| Warning: You are running an unofficial Flatpak version of Visual Studio Code !!! |

Please open issues under: https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code/issues

This version is running inside a container and is therefore not able
to access SDKs on your host system!

To execute commands on the host system, run inside the sandbox:

$ host-spawn

To make the Integrated Terminal automatically use the host system's shell,
you can add this to the settings:

{
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "bash",
"terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
"bash": {
"path": "host-spawn",
"args": ["bash"]
}
}
}

This Flatpak provides a standard development environment (gcc, python, etc).
To see what's available:

$ flatpak run --command=sh com.visualstudio.code
$ ls /usr/bin (shared runtime)
$ ls /app/bin (bundled with this flatpak)

To get support for additional languages or tools within the Flatpak, you have to install SDK extensions, e.g.

$ flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.dotnet
$ flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.golang
$ FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=dotnet,golang flatpak run com.visualstudio.code

Similarly for shells and other tools:

$ flatpak install com.visualstudio.code.tool.fish
$ flatpak install com.visualstudio.code.tool.podman

You can use

$ flatpak search

to find others.

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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
3

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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