The Atom text editor, newly introduced by the GitHub team, looks like "a hackable text editor for the 21st Century", and I must say, the screenshots have lured me. Official binaries are only available for OS X. After going open-source many have created their own binaries, and some even added them to repos. But when reading a tutorial on installation I read this:
Currently Atom only works on 64-bit (on Linux) so if you use Ubuntu
32-bit, you can't install it by using this PPA and not even by
compiling it for yourself.
So is there any way to install it on Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit? Maybe 64-bit emulation or something?
Best Answer
Atom text editor is currently available for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu from the Atom text editor PPA with different builds for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Atom text editor can be installed from the terminal by running the following commands:
The current version of Atom text editor from ppa:webupd8team/atom updated to Ubuntu 16.04/16.10/17.04/17.10 is
1.0.101.22.1.For more information about Atom text editor visit the official Atom website. A .deb file for installing Atom text editor is currently available from the official Atom website. but only for 64-bit operating systems. To install Atom text editor from the official Atom website on 32-bit Ubuntu follow the instructions in the accepted answer to How I can create a 32-bit version of Atom?.
There is currently an Atom text editor snap package that can be installed in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu using the command
sudo snap install --classic atom
however the Atom snap package is only available for 64-bit OSs.