# Trouble installing VS Code for Julia

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trouble-installing-vs-code-for-julia/64897 "2021-07-19T03:06:45Z")\
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It would be useful to know what you were actually doing that caused VSCode to ask for a launch.json.

I’d suggest you open a REPL (with the `Julia: Start REPL` command, which you can find in the command palette, which, in turn, you can open with F1 or Ctrl-Shift-P) and take it from there, or use the `Julia: Execute File in REPL` command, which is available with the “play” button in the upper right of the editor.

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