Cannot install on Linux

[kurthuwig]

When search for "Marlin" in the extensions, I get only these results:

• Mario: The Block J...
• Star Rod
• nightly

[thisiskeithb]

Are you using VSCodium by chance? VSCode’s Marketplace isn’t used in those builds due to licensing issues so it won’t show.

You could try to install it manually: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarlinFirmware.auto-build

[kurthuwig]

I use this version:

1 community/code 1.75.1-1 (14.3 MiB 102.8 MiB) (Installed)
The Open Source build of Visual Studio Code (vscode) editor

Version: 1.75.1
Commit: 441438abd1ac652551dbe4d408dfcec8a499b8bf
Date: 2023-02-09T20:16:38.064Z
Electron: 19.1.9
Chromium: 102.0.5005.167
Node.js: 16.14.2
V8: 10.2.154.15-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.1.12-1-MANJARO
Sandboxed: No

The manual installation worked fine, thanks!

[thisiskeithb]

I use this version:
1 community/code 1.75.1-1 (14.3 MiB 102.8 MiB) (Installed)
The Open Source build of Visual Studio Code (vscode) editor

Ahh. It has the same extension licensing restrictions since it’s not the official VSCode build from Microsoft.

[kurthuwig]

Ok, but why do I see other extensions that I can install? Which licensing restriction apply? I thought Marlin were GPL?!

[thisiskeithb]

I thought Marlin were GPL?!

It is, but the restriction is from Microsoft, not Marlin.

The VSCodium readme on extensions/marketplace covers this better than I can explain here, but the short version is:

Unfortunately, as Microsoft microsoft/vscode#31168 or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products those need to be installed differently.

So any non-Microsoft build of VSCode is forced to use a different extension marketplace (like https://open-vsx.org/ or whatever your fork of VSCode uses), or they would be in violation of the licensing.

[kurthuwig]

Thanks for the explanation!