How to: Install and Uninstall atom text editor in Linux

This tutorial shows multiple ways to install and uninstall Linux flavours

How to install Atom Text Editor on Linux

There are different flavors of Linux.

Atom editor can be installed on mint using the Debian package.

First, update all libraries to latest using below command

sudo apt update

first, add apt package repository as given below

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom

Next, Run sudo apt update command

Finally, Installs atom version using apt command.

sudo apt install atom

To upgrade to latest version, you can run below command in terminal.

sudo apt upgrade