Atom is an editor for the 21st century. Created by Github with love, Atom is modular, advanced, hackable editor for programmers. We all know Editor play’s very important to keep developer like you productive.
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Visit the official site here to download the Atom editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. However, you can install Atom using the command line too.
To download and install Atom in Ubuntu you have to type following command one by one in your terminal.
Step 1 : Add repository:
Press Enter if it ask your permission.
Step 2 : Update the Repository
It will take some time. Be patient.
Step 3 : Install Atom.
It will download and install the Atom editor on your Ubuntu 14.04. Here is screen shot of Atom running in Ubuntu.
You can then install extensions to enhance the functionalities of Atom editor. Here are top 5 packages you should consider to install in Atom.
Thanks.
Needs some more tweaking for the above instructions to work:
ck@dev7:~$ sudo apt-get install atom
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
atom : Depends: gconf2
Depends: gconf-service
Depends: libgnome-keyring0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify4 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxtst6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnss3 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gvfs-bin
Depends: xdg-utils but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
Please try this command : sudo apt-get -f install
Thanks Dude ! 🙂
what?
Gracias!!
Thanks! works like a charm in 14.04.3 LTS (trusty)
I want to thank you for sharing this tutorial. Now I have an editor on my Ubuntu 15 desktop that I really like, and it doesn’t nag me to buy it like Sublime does !
Yup.
But i am sure sublime deserve the payment for their hard-work.
respected sir it is not working on my PC
what should i go for
I recieve the following error. What should I do??
dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.
Try these commands.
sudo rm *
As it says, just manually run ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’
very good
One liner for code above –
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom -y; sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install atom -y; sudo apt-get install -f -y
*Please fix this if I was wrong. I did not responsible for anything happened when you run that code.
Dear friend, thank you so much.
thanks
thank you very much…..
where we find the atom after downloading.. I can’t find in my download folder
I’m having the same problem
Run:
atom
in the terminal, and then pin the application to the sidebar
Thanks, It is very helpful to me.
Thank You for the hassle free installation guide
Great post. Thanks and keep it up.
Hello Sir, I am using an Ubuntu 16.04.1 on a digital ocean droplet and have installed atom but it will not open
Do you know if it requires some kind of a GUI system? I am only working from the command line.
Any help is appreciated…
Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
[4493:0103/141840:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(283)] Gtk: cannot open display:
Thanks
Hi there,
You, of course, you need a GUI system to access it.
You can open atom using the command line but AFAIK, you need GUI system.
Thanks for share,,,, almost equal to Sublime ya… but this one is enough
Thanks.
wow … worked … thanks !!
Many thanks for the quick and simple guide.
MethodError: `bind` has no method matching bind(::Media.Binding{Any}, ::Atom.Editor, ::Task)
Closest candidates are:
bind{T}(!Matched::Lazy.Binding{T}, ::T, ::Task)
bind{T}(!Matched::Function, !Matched::Lazy.Binding{T}, ::T)
how to solve this issue to be able to run julia file in atom? thanks
thanks Dear i started using ubuntu 1 week ago and can’t find how to download or install ATOM but your aticle done this
Thanks Bro !
can you tell me how to install intel graphic on ubuntu ????
It worked great
It’s work! Thanks!
atom is better then sublime ?
Yes, as per my opinion.
I am of the opinion that atom is better too
It says “sudo add-apt-repository: command not found”
I’m using trusty ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Intel i3.
What should I do?
I downloaded atom successfully using your instructions. However, when I click on the atom icon to launch it nothing happens. I am on Ubuntu 14.04. Any idea what I can do to fix this?
tks!
Thanks works ooook
The PPA mentioned in this article is not updated. A better option would be to add `snap install atom –classic` install instructions. Snaps can be installed on Ubuntu (going back to 14.04), Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mint, Arch Linux, Solus, etc. The Atom snap is always current and updates automatically when new versions are released 🙂
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
how to solve this issue? thanks.
You are already installing something. That’s why Linux locks the package installation.