Install Atom 1.9.0 (Text Editor) on Linux Mint / Ubuntu Derivatives and Fedora 22
Install Atom 1.9.0 stable on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 17.1, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems
Atom is a free, cross-platform, and open-source graphical software that has been designed from the ground up to act as a hackable text editor and programmer's editor application that helps any aspiring developer to write code without too much hassle.
Being build on the Electron framework, an open-source and cross-platform solution that lets developers create modern desktop apps using state-of-the-art Web technologies like HTML5, CSS, Node.js, and JavaScript, Atom offers a powerful, customizable, and extendable user interface.
Features at a glance
Prominent features of Atom include cross-platform editing, which means that you can use it on your favorite operating system, no matter if it's a GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows, and a built-in package manager that allows developers to search and install packages from within the app, or even create new ones.
Another interesting feature of Atom is called "smart autocompletion" and it will help you write code faster than ever before. The application also comes with a built-in file system browser so you can easily locate your projects and start coding immediately, as well as multiple panes for comparing and editing code across several files.
The find and replace functionality could not be overlooked, as Atom lets users find, replace, or preview text in the application as they type in a single file or across multiple one from a big project. You can even find and replace text from files across all of your projects.
What New on Atom 1.9.0 :
- Display Layers, which are going to bring speed improvements as well as new features like free-form folds (via the Fold Selection command) and an improved soft-wrapping algorithm.
- Electron Upgrade (v0.37.8), which features many performance improvements and enables efficient ligatures rendering on all the platforms.
- Drag and Drop Layout Management, that provides a very intuitive way for organizing the workspace.
- Enhanced Reliability When Saving Files, which minimizes the risk of losing files when a hard crash occurs.
- Shell Commands Compatibility On Windows, that makes the atom command compatible with both Cygwin and Msys.
- Removal of GitRepositoryAsync:
- Earlier this year, we added an experimental async API for interacting with Git repositories based on libgit2 called GitRepositoryAsync. We never officially made this API public, but some package authors started using it anyway based on examples in our bundled packages.
- Unfortunately, our bindings to libgit2 were causing Atom’s helper processes to become unstable, leading to hard crashes. We apologize to any package authors who may have switched to these new APIs, but we’ve been fo
How to : Install Atom 1.9.0 on Linux Mint / Ubuntu and derivatives :
To Install/Update Atom 1.9.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial xerus, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.4 loki, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:$ wget https://atom-installer.github.com/v1.9.6/atom-amd64.deb?s=1470494845 -O atom-1.9.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i atom-1.9.0.deb
In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install -f
For Fedora 22 Derivatidves :
wget https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.8.0/atom.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install ./atom.x86_64.rpm
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Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.
