Atom Community is a collection of packages and themes for the Atom text editor. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Atom Community on MXLinux Latest.
Before installing Atom Community, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed:
Git is a version control system that is used to manage the source code for Atom Community. To install Git on MXLinux Latest, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install git
Enter your user password and wait for the installation to complete.
Next, you need to clone the Atom Community repository from GitHub. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/atom-community/atom.git
This will create a new folder called "atom" in your home directory, which contains the Atom Community source code.
Atom Community requires several Node.js packages to be installed as dependencies. To install these packages, open a terminal and navigate to the "atom" folder:
cd ~/atom
Once you are in the "atom" folder, run the following command to install the dependencies:
npm install
This will take a few minutes to complete, depending on your internet speed.
Once the dependencies are installed, you can start Atom by running the following command from the "atom" folder:
./atom.sh
This will start Atom and load the Atom Community packages and themes.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Atom Community on MXLinux Latest. Now you can enjoy the additional packages and themes that Atom Community provides.
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