Install Atom editor 1.17.0 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint / CentOS / Fedora

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest version of 1.17.0 in Ubuntu 16.04 / LinuxMint 18 / CentOS 7 and Fedora 25

Atom is a free, cross-platform, and open-source graphical software that has been designed to act as a hackable text editor and programmer's editor application that helps the developer to write code without too much hassle.

Atom editor is built in the Electron framework, that lets developers create modern desktop apps using state-of-the-art Web technologies like HTML5, CSS, Node.js, and JavaScript.
The latest version of Atom editor is 1.17.0 and recently released the list of below changes

• Docks
• Improved startup time
• Fix for middle-mouse-button paste on Linux
• Restore the Atom environment when adding project folders to a fresh window
• Removal of jQuery from all bundled packages

Installation steps

For Ubuntu

Atom editor can be installed via unofficial PPA or by the deb file provided by ATOM.

Via unofficial PPA

Step 1: Add the PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom

Step 2: update the repos

sudo apt-get update

Step 3 : Install the atom editor 1.17.0

sudo apt-get install atom

Via deb file

wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.17.0/atom-amd64.deb

dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb

For CentOS / RHEL / Fedora

wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.17.0/atom.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh atom.x86_64.rpm

For uninstallation on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove atom