Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writting: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.
The latest version available is Atom 0.141.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:
- You can now change the file’s encoding from the status bar or by using Ctrl-Shift-U.
- apm install is now faster due to more aggressive caching of native libraries.
- Fixed an issue where Atom would fail to launch when using a custom resourcePath in non-dev mode.
- Fixed an issue in the Settings view where disabled core packages wouldn’t be listed in the menu on the left.
While a deb packages for 64 bit Debian, Ubuntu and derivative systems have been available for a while, the Atom developers have also built an Atom 0.141.0 RPM package for Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia, OpenMandriva and other systems using RPMs.
If you want to install Atom 0.141.0 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Debian or a derivative system, all you have to do is:
$ wget github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.141.0/atom-amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
$ sudo gdebi atom-amd64.deb
But for both 32 bit and 64 bit Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 systems, Andrew from WebUpd8 has packed the installer as a deb package in his repository, for an easier installation. To install Atom 0.141.0 via PPA, do:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
To install Atom 0.141.0 by using on 64 bit Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora systems, via the official RPM package, do:
$ wget github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.141.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo yum install atom.x86_64.rpm
To install Atom 0.141.0 by using on 64 bit OpenSUSE systems, via the official RPM package, do:
$ wget github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.141.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo zypper install atom.x86_64.rpm
To install Atom 0.141.0 by using on 64 bit Mageia and OpenMandriva systems, via the official RPM package, do:
$ wget github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v0.141.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo urpmi atom.x86_64.rpm