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I am using the Azure Data Studio Client App for managing Databases. Ubuntu 20.04. When I check for updates inside the AZ Data Studio i get a tar.gz in my downloads folder. No instructions as to what to do with the tar.gz. Does anyone know what I am supposed to do with this tar.gz?

Google seemed to have no answers i am a newbie at Linux. Sorry if this is obvious to to many. Thanks for your help! :)

Mark

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  1. You can go to Download and install Azure Data Studio

  2. Download the .deb file

  3. Install it by running the following:

    cd ~
sudo dpkg -i ./Downloads/azuredatastudio-linux-1.32.0.deb

    (At this time (10/10/2021) Version 1.32.0 is the latest, so replace that with whatever version you are installing)

  4. Run Azure Data Studio

    azuredatastudio

It should be able to update your current version.

Greenonline
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Koketso M
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Based on the official documentation from Microsoft, you need to perform the following steps:

cd ~
cp ~/Downloads/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.tar.gz ~ 
tar -xvf ~/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.tar.gz 
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:~/azuredatastudio-linux-x64"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

In plain English, this means:

  1. Copy the .tar.gz file to your Home directory
  2. Expand the file
  3. Add the application path to your PATH
  4. Reload the Bash profile

As you already have Azure Data Studio installed, you can probably ditch steps 3 and 4, but do confirm that there is already something named azuredatastudio-linux-x64 in your Home directory. If there isn’t, you may have the Snap version of the application installed, which updates itself as new releases are made available.

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