How to uninstall Atom text editor on Linux?
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i was reading the documentation looking for a way to cleanly uninstall Atom from my linux OS, but i didn't find anything related.
Is there a set of directories to delete? or maybe an script to run?
Thanks for the attention
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Solution 1 - Atom Editor
I have posted the same question in the Github Project Repository and this is the complete answer: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2195#issuecomment-42917489
The commands to execute are:
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/
Solution 2 - Atom Editor
For Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 18.04, use the following:
sudo apt-get remove atom
Solution 3 - Atom Editor
If you installed 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
Solution 4 - Atom Editor
Atom may also be installed as a Snap. You can find out by using:
$ sudo snap list
If you see it in the list you can remove it with:
$ sudo snap remove atom
For more on snaps: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy
Solution 5 - Atom Editor
In RHEL (I guess also Fedora/CentOS), just type: yum erase atom
Solution 6 - Atom Editor
on Ubuntu (15.04):
after installing the .deb
from atom.io, I found the package available under the Ubuntu Software center.
Solution 7 - Atom Editor
I would use simply
sudo apt remove --purge atom
since it is also suggested in the (un-official) installation page here
Solution 8 - Atom Editor
On Ubuntu 14.04, with Atom 1.0, I didn't find anything under /usr/local/bin/
.
However, the install was at /usr/share/atom/
, which I deleted.
Solution 9 - Atom Editor
If you have installed Atom by .deb, then you can just remove by:
sudo dpkg -r atom
Solution 10 - Atom Editor
In fedora,it can be removed by:
sudo dnf remove atom