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

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

If anybody is interested, I wrote a small atom package for this purpose.

The package is meant to timely inform the user of new versions being available (stable or beta, configurable via settings) and uses GitHub API under the hood. It is platform independent, so it should work with any linux distro, but also with Windows or other systems.

It does not perform the upgrade automatically as I wrote it for my needs and I was not interested in such feature. I may add it in the future should strong interest for it manifest itself, though.

Feedback is welcome, best as tickets on github.

Answer 6

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