How to upgrade Atom Editor on Linux?

Question

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         


        

Answer 1

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

2. 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

3. Make it executable

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

4. Run the script to upgrade atom

sudo atom-update