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Select Live Share on the status bar or select Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P and then select Live Share: Sign In.Ī prompt to sign in displays. You can sign in by using a Microsoft personal account (for example, a Microsoft-backed work or school account (Azure Active Directory), or a GitHub account. This sign-in is a security measure and doesn't add you to marketing activities or other research activities. To collaborate, you'll need to sign in to Visual Studio Live Share so everyone knows who you are. If you can't get browser integration to work, you can still join collaboration sessions manually.

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Enter your password when prompted, and select Enter when the installation completes to close the terminal window.įor information about why the password is required and where Live Share puts files, see Linux browser integration. A terminal window noting where the browser launcher will be installed will appear. On certain rare distributions, you might be notified that your admin (sudo) password is required to complete the installation. Visual Studio Live Share doesn't typically require extra installation steps to enable browser integration on Linux. You can rerun the latest version of this script at any time by running this command from a terminal window: wget -O ~/vsls-reqs & chmod +x ~/vsls-reqs & ~/vsls-reqs You might not want Visual Studio Code to run the command for you. If you see a message stating that the script doesn't support your distribution, see Tips for community-supported distributions for information the community has shared with us.

You might also want to check out Tips by distribution for other hints and workarounds. If the installation completes successfully, restart Visual Studio Code. Enter your admin (sudo) password to continue. When you select Install, a terminal window will open.

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You'll see a notification prompting you to install libraries when Live Share comes across a problem that can be caused by missing libraries: By default, Live Share attempts to detect and install Linux prerequisites. Some distributions of Linux are missing libraries that Live Share needs. For more information, see Linux installation details. If you're using a nonstandard configuration or downstream distribution, you might have complications.

The process should be straightforward if you use official distributions of Visual Studio Code and: Given the number of desktop environments and distributions, getting Live Share installed can be complicated. Restart Visual Studio Code when the installation is done.

Enter your admin (sudo) password when prompted.

Linux only: If you see a notification about installing missing libraries:.

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Wait for dependencies to download and install.

Download and install the Visual Studio Live Share Extension Pack from Marketplace.

See troubleshooting if you run into problems.

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When you download and use Visual Studio Live Share, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement.

See Linux installation details for information on using downstream distributions and other distributions.

NET Core 2.0 requirements, 32-bit Linux isn't supported. You might be prompted to install these items.

Live Share requires several prerequisites for Linux.

Linux: 64-bit Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and later, Fedora Workstation 27 and later, or CentOS 7. NET Core 2.0 requirements, El Capitan (10.11) and earlier aren't currently supported. You'll need Visual Studio Code (1.22.0 or later) running on one of the following operating systems: Check it out! Prerequisitesīefore you start, you'll need a supported version of Visual Studio Code for the Live Share core requirements. You can even use the same identity in both instances. Did you know that you can join your own collaboration session? Doing so allows you to try Live Share on your own or to spin up an instance of Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code and connect to it remotely.