Installing Microsoft Edit in Debian or Ubuntu based distros

This little application makes it easier to edit files on the terminal with full mouse, copy-paste support and more! A good one to have in our toolkit.

Note

The current version of Edit (1.2.0) is not available via the package manager apt yet. This could change at some point in the future, making for an easier deployment.

Install Pre-requisites¶

zstd - to decompress the downloaded file

sudo apt install zstd

Install the latest Edit version from GitHub for x86_64¶

EDIT_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/edit/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "v\K[0-9.]+')
wget -qO edit.tar.zst https://github.com/microsoft/edit/releases/latest/download/edit-$EDIT_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.zst
sudo tar xf edit.tar.zst -C /usr/local/bin edit
edit --version
rm -rf edit.tar.zst

This can easily be made into a script for multiple installations.