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Install Atom

Requirements: none specific.

Objectives & Outlines

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • edit text using Atom

Type: step-by-step tutorial

Estimated time for completion: 5 mins.

Install Atom on MAC

  1. Go to atom's website atom.io. On the landing page, identify the red download button (it should correspond to your system):

atom dot io website

  1. It will download a zip file atom-mac.zip. Click on this file to expand the Atom executable.

  2. Click on the Atom executable to run atom. On the first start, it should install the atom command into your terminal.

Install Atom on Linux

  1. Go to atom's website atom.io. On the landing page, identify the red download button (it should correspond to your system).

  2. It will download a packaged file corresponding to your system. In Ubuntu/Debian it would be atom-amd64.deb.

  3. In a terminal, get into the directory you downloaded this file into, and run sudo dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb to run the installer.

Install Atom on Windows

  1. Go to atom's website atom.io. On the landing page, identify the red download button (it should correspond to your system).

  2. It will download a zip file atom-windows.zip. Click on this file to expand the Atom folder.

  3. Within that folder, click on the Atom executable to run atom.