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 script/grunt install 

Answer 1

I created the following script to update my atom on Ubuntu 14.10.

#!/bin/bash # Update atom from downloaded deb file rm -f /tmp/atom.deb curl -L https://atom.io/download/deb > /tmp/atom.deb dpkg --install /tmp/atom.deb   echo "***** apm upgrade - to ensure we update all apm packages *****" apm upgrade --confirm false  exit 0 

The file atom_update is executable and needs to be called using su:

sudo ./atom_update 

The above works, but nowadays I use the following:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/atom sudo apt -y update sudo apt -y install atom apm install \ file-icons \ tabs-to-spaces \ trailing-spaces \ xml-formatter 

With the above setup

sudo apt -y upgrade 

will update an installed atom to the latest version. The ppa is generally up to date.