Smoke test Red Hat Distros

[Tyriar]

Smoke vscode test on the following distributions

• RHEL6 (Support RHEL Linux platform #1056): Does not work without compiling from source (of which there are other problems).
• RHEL7: Works
• CentOS 7: Works
• Fedora 23: Works

[Tyriar]

Installed RHEL6 and ran in to some issues.

• Hit the issue described here Support RHEL Linux platform #1056 and did a little research, it looks like building on a RHEL machine will fix this.

• Installed prereqs:

  curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash -
  yum install nodejs
  npm install -g mocha gulp
  yum install gcc-c++
  yum install libX11-devel.x86_64
  # and install python2.7
  

Currently hitting an issue when installing npm deps

[Tyriar]

Same issue with RHEL6 seems to occur on Atom atom/atom#2177. I think RHEL7 should work since it comes with gcc 4.8 (C++11).

[rebornix]

Install GCC 4.8 in RHEL6 per http://superuser.com/questions/381160/how-to-install-gcc-4-7-x-4-8-x-on-centos . But still get problems with [email protected] installation.

[ykne]

Are there any updates for making this work on RHEL6.x?

[Tyriar]

@ykne no updates, we support RHEL7+ https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/requirements

Snap package support may change this, I'm not sure #5458