This page walks you through installation options for Posit Publisher.
Install via the Visual Studio Code Marketplace
or searching "Posit Publisher" in the VS Code Extensions view and clicking Install.
Download and install the VS Code extension.
- For Arm MacOS: publisher-1.8.0-darwin-arm64.vsix
- For Intel MacOS: publisher-1.8.0-darwin-amd64.vsix
- For Windows: publisher-1.8.0-windows-amd64.vsix
- For Arm Linux: publisher-1.8.0-linux-arm64.vsix
- For Intel Linux: publisher-1.8.0-linux-amd64.vsix
To learn how to install a .vsix file, see the Install from a
VSIX
guide from Visual Studio Code.
We have updates scripts for macOS and linux to download and install the latest version of the publisher:
First, download the update script you will also have to mark it executable:
chmod u+x install-publisher.bashYou can put the script somewhere on your $PATH so you can run it from any directory, or add it to your .bashrc or .zshrc.
Run the script as follows:
./install-publisher.bashWhich will install the most recent release of the publisher.
You can also install nightlies with:
./install-publisher.bash nightlyOr install a specific version with:
./install-publisher.bash 1.0.beta1Warning
VSCode uses inotify on Linux installations. If file changes aren't updating the Publisher extension, ensure you have inotify installed.
To install inotify on Debian, use the following command:
apt install inotify-tools
If you plan on deploying Quarto content having Quarto installed will allow Posit Publisher to correctly detect Quarto application types for easier deploying.
The following operating systems are supported.
- macOS 12 (Monterey)
- macOS 13 (Ventura)
- macOS 14 (Sonoma)
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- RHEL 8
- RHEL 9
- Ubuntu 20.04 (focal)
- Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
- openSUSE 15.5
Operating system by chip architecture
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