How to install Atom on Xubuntu 18.04

Atom is another great text editor for web developers, atom is made by github and it's free to use. In this tutorial i will show you how to install atom text editor on xubuntu 18.04 bionic.

You can install atom in two different way, you can either manually download the package or use the official repo of atom and then install with apt-get command, i'm going to explain both in this tutorial. Either way is fine, but i found manual download has less step.

How to install Atom text editor on Xubuntu 18.04 [Add Official Repo]

• open command line on xubuntu (press CTRL + ALT + T)
• run update command

sudo apt-get update

• install program needed for the installation

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common

• add atom gpg key

curl -sL https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -

• add atom repo to source.list

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list'

• run update command again

sudo apt-get update

• install atom

sudo apt-get install atom

• done!

How to install Atom text editor on Xubuntu 18.04 [Manual Download]

• go to atom official website
• download the debian package of atom
• open command line on xubuntu (press CTRL + ALT + T)
• run update command

sudo apt-get update

• install atom text editor (assuming the debian package is located on Downloads folder)

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/atom-amd64.deb

• if you get dependency error, run this command to install the dependencies

sudo apt-get -f install

• done!

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