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Bertrand
Bertrand

Reputation: 1000

How to upgrade Atom Editor on Linux?

What is the best way to upgrade atom on Linux Ubuntu ? I install atom using official doc

  git clone https://github.com/atom/atom
  cd atom
  script/build
  sudo script/grunt install

Upvotes: 79

Views: 64359

Answers (15)

karel
karel

Reputation: 5884

Ubuntu 16.04 and later

Run these commands to quickly and easily install and upgrade the Atom text editor snap package from the terminal in Ubuntu 16.04 and later (64-bit only).

  • Install Atom text editor:

      sudo snap install --classic atom

    Note that a snap in classic confinement behaves as a traditionally packaged application with full access to the system, and Atom extension packages are installed into the user's home directory.

  • Upgrade Atom text editor:

      sudo snap refresh --classic atom

Upvotes: 2

Pritesh Gohil
Pritesh Gohil

Reputation: 476

I upgraded from

Atom : 1.26.1 Electron: 1.7.11 Chrome : 58.0.3029.110 Node : 7.9.0

to

Atom : 1.40.1 Electron: 3.1.10 Chrome : 66.0.3359.181 Node : 10.2.0

I followed these simple steps,

  1. create a file

sudo nano /usr/local/bin/atom-update

  1. copy following snippet and save with Ctrl+o and "enter" and Ctrl+x

your code

#!/bin/bash
wget -q https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/latest -O /tmp/latest
wget --progress=bar -q 'https://github.com'$(cat /tmp/latest | grep -o -E 'href="([^"#]+)atom-amd64.deb"' | cut -d'"' -f2 | sort | uniq) -O /tmp/atom-amd64.deb -q --show-progress
dpkg -i /tmp/atom-amd64.deb
  1. Make it executable

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/atom-update

  1. Run the script to upgrade atom

sudo atom-update

Upvotes: 2

Ahmad Anis
Ahmad Anis

Reputation: 2724

Latest Way is to first install $ apm install atom-updater-linux then simply press Alt+Ctrl+U or go to Help and there is option for check for updates

Upvotes: 0

eleuteron
eleuteron

Reputation: 1983

Since December 2017 Atom provides official repositories for all major Linux distributions. You can find the latest installation instructions here.

Upvotes: 0

Gijs Noorlander
Gijs Noorlander

Reputation: 41

Currently the preferred procedure is described at the atom pages Installing Atom - Platform-linux

When using the add-apt-repository suggested in the top answer, this URL is suggested.

The apt repository mentioned at the Atom pages:

curl -sL https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list'
sudo apt-get update

Upvotes: 4

FuruiTatsu
FuruiTatsu

Reputation: 71

An easier way is to install the atom-updater-linux from the packages on the atom website.

Go to edit > preferences > install and search for atom-updater-linux

or from the terminal:

apm install atom-updater-linux

This should check for updates after every launch and prompt you to install new updates.

Upvotes: 4

rumpelsepp
rumpelsepp

Reputation: 103

For debian I have created a bash script which does the following:

  • Check with https://api.github.com and dpkg if atom is installed and/or up-to date.
  • Download and install the atom.deb from github if needed.
  • Provide a --beta switch if somebody wants to maintain the beta version as well.

Fell free to use it, it is located here: https://gist.github.com/rumpelsepp/8a953d6c092cbeb043695cfada114bef

Upvotes: 0

William Ranvaud
William Ranvaud

Reputation: 1093

Current official documentation seem to recommend another method:

Atom Github Page

Debian Linux (Ubuntu)

Atom is only available for 64-bit Linux systems.

  1. Download atom-amd64.deb from the Atom releases page.
  2. Run sudo dpkg --install atom-amd64.deb on the downloaded package.
  3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.

The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.

Red Hat Linux (Fedora 21 and under, CentOS, Red Hat)

Atom is only available for 64-bit Linux systems.

  1. Download atom.x86_64.rpm from the Atom releases page.
  2. Run sudo yum localinstall atom.x86_64.rpm on the downloaded package.
  3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.

The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.

Fedora 22+

Atom is only available for 64-bit Linux systems.

  1. Download atom.x86_64.rpm from the Atom releases page.
  2. Run sudo dnf install ./atom.x86_64.rpm on the downloaded package.
  3. Launch Atom using the installed atom command.

The Linux version does not currently automatically update so you will need to repeat these steps to upgrade to future releases.

Upvotes: 30

zurfyx
zurfyx

Reputation: 32807

It's now even easier with the APT package.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt update
sudo apt install atom

And now you can upgrade / dist-upgrade as usual

sudo apt upgrade

Upvotes: 33

Rudolf
Rudolf

Reputation: 719

I created the following script to update my atom on Ubuntu 14.10.

#!/bin/bash
# Update atom from downloaded deb file
rm -f /tmp/atom.deb
curl -L https://atom.io/download/deb > /tmp/atom.deb
dpkg --install /tmp/atom.deb 

echo "***** apm upgrade - to ensure we update all apm packages *****"
apm upgrade --confirm false

exit 0

The file atom_update is executable and needs to be called using su:

sudo ./atom_update

The above works, but nowadays I use the following:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install atom
apm install \
file-icons \
tabs-to-spaces \
trailing-spaces \
xml-formatter

With the above setup

sudo apt -y upgrade

will update an installed atom to the latest version. The ppa is generally up to date.

Upvotes: 61

infinite-etcetera
infinite-etcetera

Reputation: 1048

  wget https://atom.io/download/deb -O atom64.deb
  sudo dpkg --install atom64.deb

or

  wget https://atom.io/download/rpm -O atom64.rpm
  sudo dnf install atom64.rpm

the above URLs redirect to https://atom-installer.github.com/

Upvotes: 6

Marcelo Lazaroni
Marcelo Lazaroni

Reputation: 10247

If you are onn Ubuntu you can go to the Ubuntu Software Center, search for Atom and just click on Update. Then job done!

Upvotes: 2

Sage Ross
Sage Ross

Reputation: 591

Now, it looks like the easiest way is to download the new packaged version (.deb or .rpm) from the official releases and install it over your previous one: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases

Upvotes: 37

webanck
webanck

Reputation: 11

I would add that you should probably clean before updating the build to prevent some nasty errors.

cd atom
git pull
script/clean
script/build
sudo script/grunt install

Upvotes: 1

Lee
Lee

Reputation: 18767

As of this writing, the best option to upgrade to the latest released version of Atom is to check out the most recent tag and build it, especially if you built it in the first place.

  1. cd atom
  2. git pull
  3. git checkout v0.115.0 (or whatever the latest release is: https://github.com/atom/atom/releases)
  4. script/build
  5. sudo script/grunt install

Upvotes: 25

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