Install latest release of Atom Text Editor – Atom 0.180.0 on Linux Ubuntu systems. How to Install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu derivatives.
Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub. Atom Text Editor have a simple graphical user interface with lots of interesting features for editing on Text files and program codes.
To install Atom in Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04 or 12.04 and derivatives (Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc.), use the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom
Open & Use Atom Text Editor
Once installed, you can open the Atom text editor from Dash. Search Atom in Dash and click its icon to open the program.
Remove Atom Text Editor
sudo apt-get remove atom