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Roberto Aguilar
Roberto Aguilar

Reputation: 2104

How to uninstall Atom text editor on Linux?

i was reading the documentation looking for a way to cleanly uninstall Atom from my linux OS, but i didn't find anything related.

Is there a set of directories to delete? or maybe an script to run?

Thanks for the attention

Upvotes: 85

Views: 108458

Answers (10)

Rupak
Rupak

Reputation: 119

In fedora,it can be removed by:

sudo dnf remove atom

Upvotes: 0

scarecrow
scarecrow

Reputation: 1615

For Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 18.04, use the following:

sudo apt-get remove atom

Upvotes: 87

Erik Pillon
Erik Pillon

Reputation: 471

I would use simply

sudo apt remove --purge atom

since it is also suggested in the (un-official) installation page here

Upvotes: 4

andyanderso
andyanderso

Reputation: 321

Atom may also be installed as a Snap. You can find out by using:

$ sudo snap list

If you see it in the list you can remove it with:

$ sudo snap remove atom

For more on snaps: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy

Upvotes: 22

bernaulli
bernaulli

Reputation: 147

If you have installed Atom by .deb, then you can just remove by:

sudo dpkg -r atom

Upvotes: 0

AsGoodAsItGets
AsGoodAsItGets

Reputation: 3171

In RHEL (I guess also Fedora/CentOS), just type: yum erase atom

Upvotes: 5

Saeed Zarinfam
Saeed Zarinfam

Reputation: 10180

If you installed atom using the .deb package, you can remove it using this command:

sudo apt-get remove atom

If you want to remove any config directories, you can use this command: 

sudo apt-get purge atom

Upvotes: 43

yonatan
yonatan

Reputation: 615

on Ubuntu (15.04): after installing the .deb from atom.io, I found the package available under the Ubuntu Software center.

Upvotes: 4

Massagran
Massagran

Reputation: 1821

On Ubuntu 14.04, with Atom 1.0, I didn't find anything under /usr/local/bin/.

However, the install was at /usr/share/atom/, which I deleted.

Upvotes: 2

Roberto Aguilar
Roberto Aguilar

Reputation: 2104

I have posted the same question in the Github Project Repository and this is the complete answer: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2195#issuecomment-42917489

The commands to execute are:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/atom
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/apm
rm -rf ~/atom
rm -rf ~/.atom
rm -rf ~/.config/Atom-Shell
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/atom/

Upvotes: 96

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