In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest version of 1.22.0 in Ubuntu 16.04 / LinuxMint 18 / CentOS 7 and Fedora 26
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 on the Electron framework, that lets developers create modern desktop apps using state-of-the-art Web technologies like HTML5, CSS, Node.js, and JavaScript.
- Made a significant performance improvement fetching git status.
- Added a setting to highlight the line number in the gutter when matching brackets.
- Markdown preview panes no longer reset their scroll position to the top when the source is saved.
- Added a setting for maximum line length before soft wrapping is enforced.
- Numerous bug fixes to bundled language grammar packages.
- Changed autocomplete-plus default provider to compute suggestions natively and on a separate thread.
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/atomStep 2: update the repos
sudo apt-get updateStep 3: Install the atom editor 1.22.0
sudo apt-get install atomVia deb file
wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.22.0/atom-amd64.deb
dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb
For CentOS / RHEL / Fedora
wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.22.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh atom.x86_64.rpm
For uninstallation on Ubuntu
Just run the below command to do this
sudo apt-get remove atom
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