How to Install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18 / CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Atom is a free and open source text editor for Windows, MacOS and Linux like operating system. It is based on Electron (CoffeeScript /Javascript/HTML)) and can also be be used as IDE (integrated development environment). Atom is developed and maintained by GitHub Inc. and is also known as “hackable text editor for the 21st Century”

Some of the unique features of Atom are listed below

• Support Cross Platform Editing – Atom is platform independent so we can use it on MacOS, Windows and Linux
• Smart Autocompletion – It helps us to develop the code faster with smart and flexible autocomplete feature
• Built-in Package Manager – We can install new package and can create our own packages with in the Atom
• File system Browser – From atom window we can easily browse a file, project or multiple projects.
• Find and Replace – Atom supports easy way to find, preview and replace text in a file or across all your projects.
• Support Multiple Panes – We can easily split atom interface into multiple panes to compare and to edit code across the files.

Installation steps of Atom text editor on Ubuntu 16.04 / Ubuntu 17.04 / Linux Mint 18

Atom debian package is not available in the default Ubuntu and Linux Mint repositories. So we will download its debian (64bit) package from its official site. Open the terminal and use following wget command

linuxtechi@ubunturocks:~$ wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.18.0/atom-amd64.deb

Use the beneath commands to install downloaded debian package along with its required dependencies

linuxtechi@ubunturocks:~$ sudo dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb
linuxtechi@ubunturocks:~$ sudo apt-get install -f

Alternate Way to Install Atom on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

We can also easily install atom text editor using snap using utility, steps are shown below:

linuxtechi@ubunturocks:~$ sudo apt install snapd
linuxtechi@ubunturocks:~$ sudo snap install atom --classic

Access the Atom Now

Click on Atom icon

Installation Steps of Atom Text Editor on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Atom rpm package is not available in the default CentOS and RHEL repositories. So we will download its RPM package from its official package.

Open the terminal and run the following command one after the another.

[root@centos7 ~]# yum install wget git -y
[root@centos7 ~]# wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.18.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
[root@centos7 ~]# yum localinstall atom.x86_64.rpm -y

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