Install VSCode Server / CLI to remote development

install-vscode.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: ./install-vscode.sh [commit_id] [src_dir]
COMMIT=${1:-18e3a1ec544e6907be1e944a94c496e302073435}
SRC_DIR=${2:-/opt/vscode}
DST_DIR="${HOME}/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-${COMMIT}/server"

SERVER_TAR="${SRC_DIR}/${COMMIT}/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz"
CLI_TAR="${SRC_DIR}/${COMMIT}/vscode_cli_alpine_x64_cli.tar.gz"

echo "Using commit: $COMMIT"
echo

# Check if files exist
echo -e "🔎 Checking source files in ${SRC_DIR}/${COMMIT}...\n"
MISSING=0
if [ ! -f "$SERVER_TAR" ]; then
    echo "❌ Missing file: vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz"
    echo "➡️  Please download it from:"
    echo -e "   https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:$COMMIT/server-linux-x64/stable\n"
    MISSING=1
fi

if [ ! -f "$CLI_TAR" ]; then
    echo "❌ Missing file: vscode_cli_alpine_x64_cli.tar.gz"
    echo "➡️  Please download it from:"
    echo -e "   https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:$COMMIT/cli-alpine-x64/stable\n"
    MISSING=1
fi

if [ "$MISSING" -eq 1 ]; then
    echo "⚠️  One or more required files are missing. Please download them and try again."
    exit 1
fi
echo "✅ All required files are present."

# Extract Server
mkdir -p "${DST_DIR}"
tar -xz -C "${DST_DIR}" --strip-components=1 --no-same-owner -f "$SERVER_TAR"

# Extract CLI
tar -xz -C ~/.vscode-server --no-same-owner -f "$CLI_TAR"
ln -fs ~/.vscode-server/code "${HOME}/.vscode-server/code-${COMMIT}"

I work with VSCode locally but I connect to remote servers which don't have access to Internet, therefore the installation of the components in the remote server fails.

It's 2025 and there's no a way to configure VSCode so the local client downloads everything and copies to the remote server, or if it exists I can't find it.

Therefore here's my usual script.