It depends on the specifics of the install script, it could be it called to directly download and install the binaries (no packaging), or it ran a set of validations then download and install a native package (.deb in this case).
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Ok thanks yeah it was a .deb package. It says it in the command where I installed the repository. I thought all packages were supposed to be either snap or flatpak but now I understand.
Flatpaks and Snaps are supposed to replace native distro packaging, in order to be distro agnostic (you could run it on any distro), the issue with Snaps is that it depends on Canonical's mood and it is Ubuntu "native", whereas Flatpak is way more used elsewhere.
There is AppImages as well, but it used to a lesser extent.
Which one did you use? Share more detail. VSCodium has loads of different commands one can type and files one can download.
Ok I installed it using the commands for Ubuntu. So it was a .deb package
That means you probably ran a few commands.
The first will have added the GPG public encryption key of the package signers to your system so that your system trusts the key and can validate the package is signed by the trusted key.
The second command will have added the vscodium package sources to apt (the package manager for Ubuntu) so that your package manager is aware of where to find the vscodium package.
Finally, the last command will have updated apt so it knows of the newly added package sources as well as installed vscodium via your system’s package manager.