How to remove Atom text editor on Linux?

Question

I read the documentation trying to clean Atom from my Linux operating system, but I did not find anything related.

Is there a set of directories to delete? or maybe a script?

Thanks for your attention

Answer 1

I posted the same question on the Github project repository, and this is the complete answer: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2195#issuecomment-42917489

Executable commands:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/atom sudo rm /usr/local/bin/apm rm -rf ~/atom rm -rf ~/.atom rm -rf ~/.config/Atom-Shell sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/atom/ 

Answer 2

For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 use the following:

 sudo apt-get remove atom 

Answer 3

If you installed the atom using the .deb package, you can remove it using this command:

 sudo apt-get remove atom 

If you want to remove any config directories, you can use this command:

 sudo apt-get purge atom 

Answer 4

The atom can also be installed as a snap. You can find out with:

 $ sudo snap list 

If you see it in the list, you can delete it:

 $ sudo snap remove atom 

For more information about the snapshots: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy

Answer 5

on Ubuntu (15.04): after installing .deb from atom.io, I found the package available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

Answer 6

In RHEL (I think also Fedora / CentOS) just type: yum erase atom

Answer 7

I would just use

sudo apt remove --purge atom

since it is also offered on the (unofficial) installation page here

Answer 8

On Ubuntu 14.04, with Atom 1.0, I did not find anything under /usr/local/bin/ .

However, the installation was in /usr/share/atom/ , which I removed.

Answer 9

This is what I have in installing Linux Mint

$ uname --all

Linux lenny-home 3.13.0-37-generic # 64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU / Linux

$ ls / usr / share / atom

libchromiumcontent.so libnotify.so.4 locales content_shell.pak libffmpegsumo.so
libudev.so.0 resources icudtl.dat libgcrypt.so.11
LICENSE version

$ ls.atom /

compile-cache init.coffee nohup.out snippets.cson styles.less config.cson keymap.cson storage packages

$ file / usr / bin / X11 / atom

/ usr / bin / X11 / atom: Bourne-Again script shell, ASCII executable

Answer 10

I used the Ubuntu Software Center to reinstall it and then completely remove it (remove). Then installed electron. Hope this helps.

Answer 11

If you installed Atom on .deb, you can simply remove:

 sudo dpkg -r atom 

Answer 12

I used the command below in Ubuntu 16.04 and it worked.

 sudo apt-get remove atom 

Answer 13

In Arch, try:

 $ sudo pacman -R atom