How To Install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu 18.04
On this short tutorial, we will show you how to install Atom text editor on Ubuntu 18.04 workstation.
Introduction
If we often use a text editor on linux, of course you will be familiar with vi or vim editor. There are several text editors to choose from for use on Linux, one of which is Atom. Atom is an open-source, cross-platform code editor developed by GitHub. Atom text editor has a built-in package manager, embedded Git control, smart autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and multiple panes.
Atom Text Editor Installation on Ubuntu 18.04
The Atom text editor installation on Ubuntu can be done in two ways, namely via snap, apt and via GUI. In this article, we will discuss how to install Atom text editor using apt and snap (via console).
1. Atom Text Editor Installation via APT
By choosing this option, we will use an Atom text editor repository, ubuntu 20.04 has not included the Atom text editor repository in the default repository. Atom installation steps with APT.
- Update the packages list and install the dependencies
- Import the repository GPG key and enable it
- Install Atom text editor
- verifty Atom version
Install the Dependencies Packages
The first step is to install dependencies packages, by submitting command line :
$ sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget
Import the repository GPG key and enabling it
The next step is to import Atom text editor repository GPG key and enable it. The task will be performed by submitting command line :
$ wget -qO - https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add - :~$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list'
Output :
ramans@ubuntu:~$ wget -qO - https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add - [sudo] password for ramans: OK ramans@ubuntu:~$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list'
Install Atom Text editor
After all prerequisite are set, then we will install Atom text editor by submitting command line :
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install atom
Output :
ramans@ubuntu:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu artful InRelease Hit:2 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease Hit:7 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease Hit:9 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bionic-pgdg InRelease Get:8 https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any any InRelease [23.2 kB] Get:10 https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any any/main amd64 Packages [24.3 kB] Fetched 47.5 kB in 8s (6,063 B/s) Reading package lists... Done ramans@ubuntu:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt-get install atom Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2-common git git-man libcurl3 liberror-perl libgconf-2-4 libpython-stdlib python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal Suggested packages: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn python-doc python-tk python2.7-doc binfmt-support The following NEW packages will be installed: atom gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2-common git git-man libcurl3 liberror-perl libgconf-2-4 libpython-stdlib python python-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 119 MB of archives. After this operation, 670 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 python2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.17-1~18.04 [1,294 kB] Get:2 https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any any/main amd64 atom amd64 1.42.0 [112 MB] . . . Setting up git (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5) ... Setting up python (2.7.15~rc1-1) ... Setting up atom (1.42.0) ... Setting up gconf-service-backend (3.2.6-4ubuntu1) ... Setting up gconf-service (3.2.6-4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Verifying Atom text editor version
After installation was completed done, then we will verify its version by submitting command line :
$ atom --version
Output :
ramans@ubuntu:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ atom --version Atom : 1.42.0 Electron: 4.2.7 Chrome : 69.0.3497.128 Node : 10.11.0
2. Atom Text Editor Installation Via Snap
The Atom installation on Ubuntu via snap is very simple, just go to terminal and submit the following command line :
sudo snap install atom --classic
The Atom snap package will be automatically updated in the background, whenever the new version is released.
3. Launching Atom Text Editor
There are two options two lauch Atom text editor: GUI and from console. To lauch Atom text editor from GUI, we have to use the Activities then search bar type “Atom” and click on the icon to launch the application. If we want to launch Atom from console, just text atom from the prompt then enter.
When you start the Atom editor for the first time, a window like the following should appear.
Conclusion
On this article, we have learnt how to install Atom text editor on Ubuntu 18.04 ubuntuk desktop. I hope it will be helpful.