Atom Text Editor for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install Atom 1.0.10 Text Editor (via PPA) on Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04. Atom is a popular text editor developed by GitHub, for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Atom is specially designed for web programming languages – CSS, HTML, JavaScript and others.
Atom Text Editor comes with many powerful features such as a full-featured UI with cross-platform editing, built-in package manager, smart autocompletion feature. It also features a file system browser with multiple panes with find and replace feature.
Atom 1.0.10 is the latest version available of the Atom text editor. The Atom 1.0.10 has been recently released with the following changes:
- Fixed an issue on Linux and Mac where Atom would fail to launch when run using sudo.
- Fixed an issue that prevented scrolling while clicking and dragging with a maximized window.
Atom 1.0.9 (released few days ago) brought the following changes:
- Find and replace changes
- Files and folders can now be dragged and dropped into different Folders in the tree view.
- Fixed an issue on Linux and Mac where Atom would fail to launch when run using sudo.
- Fixed an issue on Windows where Atom would fail to launch from Git Bash.
- Fixed an issue that prevented scrolling while clicking and dragging with a maximized window.
Install Atom 1.0.10 Text Editor On Ubuntu
Atom 1.0.10 can be installed on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and others. Please note that there is no official Atom repository/PPA, but can be installed via third party PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
If you wish to uninstall and remove the Atom Text Editor from Ubuntu Systems, run the command given below:
$ sudo apt-get remove atom