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Friday, May 13, 2016

How To Install Atom Text Editor On Ubuntu , Fedora and Its Derivative Systems

How To Install Atom Text Editor On Ubuntu , Fedora and Its Derivative Systems



Atom Text Editor is a nice and feature rich cross platform open source text editor, developed by GitHub. Atom is a desktop application built using web technologies. Atom is based on Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell), a framework that enables cross-platform desktop applications using Chromium and Node.js. It can also be used as an IDE. Its developers call it a "hackable text editor for the 21st Century".

Here, i have listed some features of Atom Text Editor ...

  • Smart auto completion
  • File system Browser
  • Cross-platform editing
  • Multiple panes
  • Find and Replace
  • UI can be customize just with web technologies like CSS, Less.
  • Built-in package manager
  • Themes & plug-ins to extend the functionality

Installation :

Now see , How to install Atom Text Editor On Different Linux Systems...

For Ubuntu and its derivatives..

This method also work for debian ,Ubuntu and its derivatives.

Via PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install atom

Via official binaries..

This method will give latest available version of atom..

cd && wget https://atom.io/download/deb && mv deb atom.deb && sudo dpkg -i atom.deb

For Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

cd && wget https://atom.io/download/rpm && mv rpm atom.rpm && sudo rpm -Uhv atom.rpm

For Other Linux Systems..

For other Linux distros... you can find installation instructions here... see ,now..