credit: http://www.omnisharp.net/ If you’re , you be missing . A sub-alternative is . trying to work on .NET outside of Windows probably Visual studio VS code Now, we’re going to it on setup Ubuntu linux The contents of the extracted folder will look something like: is the executable file we’re interested in: code Double click code For the sake of organisation, I have all the downloaded setups in a separate called . Yes, inspired by directory Programs Windows Running from it’s folder is too much work. To minimize it, we can using the command code everytime create a symbolic link sudo ln -s /path/to/vscode/Code /usr/local/bin/code In my case, I replaced with so the final syntax is /path/to/vscode/Code ~/Programs/VSCode-linux-x64/Code sudo ln -s ~/Programs/VSCode-linux-x64/Code /usr/local/bin/code In case of already created symbolic link, an error will be shown: From next time, we can just open a terminal with Ctrl Alt T and type code After installation, using the below commands: make sure to always run the [dnvm](http://stackoverflow.com/a/35031584/2404470) and [dnu](http://stackoverflow.com/a/35031584/2404470) commands by adding to [.bash_profile](http://stackoverflow.com/a/35031584/2404470) echo 'source dnvm.sh' >> ~/.bash_profile echo 'export MONO_MANAGED_WATCHER=disabled' >> ~/.bash_profile Verify that commands are actually added: Go to in Files explorer Home Unhide hidden files using Ctrl+H Locate the file .bash_profile Open it with or your favourite editor gedit source dnvm.sh export MONO_MANAGED_WATCHER=disabled Alternatively, : use [cat](http://askubuntu.com/a/261902/219603) or [less](http://askubuntu.com/a/261902/219603) commands And VS code is ready to use: Photos Originally published at xameeramir.github.io .