FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) is an international high school robotics program where teams design, build, and program industrial-sized robots to compete in complex, alliance-based games. Teams that do well go to the World Championships in Houston and other premier events hosted by specific teams.

Install necessary runtime and patching deps

sudo apt-get install libuuid1 patchelf libfreetype6

Download the WPILib suite by going to https://github.com/wpilibsuite/allwpilib/releases, selecting the latest version and downloading for "Linux arm64"

Extract it by doing

sudo tar -xvf [LOCATION TO DOWNLOADED FILE]

where [LOCATION TO DOWNLOADED FILE] is the place where the file was downloaded

Patching WPILibInstaller

Go to the extracted folder directory and run

patchelf --add-needed libfreetype.so.6 WPILibInstaller patchelf --add-needed libuuid.so.1 WPILibInstaller

run the patched installer

./WPILibInstaller

When you get to the VSCode download screen, choose this option:

Then click next. Once done it should show a successful installation message.

Fun Fact. In bash you can define functions to be ran as strings with spaces in them.