visual studio code - How can I install vscode-server in linux offline

Question

I am trying to install VScode remote-ssh extensions, but my remote host could not connect to the Internet,so there is no way to download software is needed. So I got some error message like that:

SSH Resolver called for "ssh-remote+kf"
SSH Resolver called for host: kf
Setting up SSH remote "kf"
Using commit id "daf71423252a707b8e396e8afa8102b717f8213b" and quality "insider" for server
Install and start server if needed
> bash: no job control in this shell
> Installing...
> Downloading with wget
> ERROR: certificate common name “*.azurewebsites.net” doesn’t match requested host name “update.code.visualstudio.com”. To connect to update.code.visualstudio.com insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’.
> 2b948abc-b874-4ef5-875a-a29370a5f844##25##
"install" terminal command done
Received install output: 2b948abc-b874-4ef5-875a-a29370a5f844##25##
Server download failed
Downloading VS Code Server failed. Please try again later.

How could I fix this problem ?

Answer 1

1. First get commit id
2. Download vscode server from url: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable
3. Upload the vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz to server
4. Unzip the downloaded vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz to ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id} without vscode-server-linux-x64 dir
5. Create 0 file under ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}

commit_id=f06011ac164ae4dc8e753a3fe7f9549844d15e35

# Download url is: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable
curl -sSL "https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:${commit_id}/server-linux-x64/stable" -o vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz

mkdir -p ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}
# assume that you upload vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz to /tmp dir
tar zxvf /tmp/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz -C ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id} --strip 1
touch ~/.vscode-server/bin/${commit_id}/0

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See this Gist download-vs-code-server for a more complete shell script that will also get the latest released commit SHA (from GitHub) so you do not need to supply it yourself.

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[edited to add helpful comment in case comments disappear later:]

You can replace commit:<commit> with latest to get the latest release build. Example: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/latest/server-linux-x64/stable. Respects indicated quality i.e, stable, insider. – Doom5