Troubles compiling a program from source

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I'm trying to install Visual Studio Code from the source(which comes in tar.gz archive) for Ubuntu 18.14 (architecture armhf). But there are no readme, configure, or even configure.ac. How can i compile and install it?

I downloaded it here: https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '19 at 08:12

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You need to just extract the tar.gz

$tar xzf <archive>
$cd <extracted directory>
$./code

answered Mar 19 '19 at 08:12

Gowtham

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I extracted it already, and that's what i get after executing $./code : bash: ./code: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error – Nazar Antonyk Mar 19 '19 at 08:33
Can you show the output of what file it is using file code – Gowtham Mar 19 '19 at 08:43
code: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped – Nazar Antonyk Mar 19 '19 at 08:58
you should check here – Gowtham Mar 19 '19 at 09:01

Troubles compiling a program from source

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