How to Install Atom Community on Manjaro

Atom Community is a project that aims to enhance the Atom text editor by providing additional packages, themes, and language supports.

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to install Atom Community on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution.

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure that you have Manjaro up and running on your computer. You will also need to have Git installed. If Git is not already installed, you can install it using the following command:

sudo pacman -S git

Installation of Atom Community

To install Atom Community on Manjaro, follow the steps below:

1. Open your terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to download and install Atom Community. For example, you can use the command below to navigate to your home directory:

cd ~

2. Clone the Atom Community repository from GitHub using Git. You can do this by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/atom-community/atom

This will create a new directory named atom in your current working directory.

3. Navigate to the newly created atom directory:

cd atom

4. Install the required dependencies by running the following command:

sudo npm install

This may take some time as it will install all the required Node.js packages.

5. Once the installation is complete, start Atom Community by running the following command:

npm start

This will launch Atom Community in your default web browser.

Congratulations, you have installed Atom Community on Manjaro!

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Atom Community on Manjaro. Now, you can explore and utilize all the additional packages, themes, and language supports provided by the Atom Community project in your Atom editor.

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