Installing Microsoft Edit in Debian or Ubuntu based distros

Microsoft Edit provides terminal editing with full mouse and copy-paste support.

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¶

Install zstd, needed to decompress the downloaded archive:

sudo apt install zstd

Install the latest Edit version from GitHub for x86_64¶

Download and install the latest release: 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 ```

The commands above can be turned into a script for repeat installs.