This project is intended to automate packaging and installing of vscode, vscode-server, and extensions for use in an offline environment.
Usage requires an internet connected computer with VSCode installed, with all extensions you wish to install to the offline host.
The following requirements are needed on the online host.
No additional dependencies are required on the offline host. (only bash, tar, sed, and grep are used)
On the online host, run ./dlvsix.sh with no arguments from a bash session to start the download. All downloaded files will be in the vscode-extensions/ directory.
Additionally, the folder will be archived to vscode-extensions.tar.gz as a convenience. This file should be transfered to the offline host using any method available.
On the offline host, extract vscode-extensions.tar.gz using the tar command. This will create the folder vscode-extensions.
tar xzf vscode-extensions.tar.gzFrom here on for the client, installation is straight-forward. Simply run the vscode user setup from win32-x64-user/ as on any other host.
After installing, you can drag + drop the files from the extensions/ directory to the extensions sidebar inside vscode.
Note: Some extensions may have been downloaded for multiple platforms. Be sure to just install your platform's extension. VSCode will not warn you when you install the wrong one.
If you are running vscode-server with the Remote Development extension, vscode will try to download the code server from Microsoft. This obviously won't work offline.
Luckily, the dlvsix.sh script downloaded the server too. There is even a script install-server.sh which gets generated inside vscode-extensions.
This script will automatically extract the downloaded vscode server to ~/.vscode-server/bin/ and install all the extensions. Afterwards, you will be able to connect to the remote host in vscode.