How To Install Atom 0.124.0 On Fedora 20 Systems

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writting: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.

The latest version available is Atom 0.124.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with important changes.

Open Behavior Changes

• Selecting a file from the open dialog will now open that file in the current window.
• Dropping a file onto a window now opens that file in the window it was dropped onto.
• Selecting a folder from the open dialog will now open that folder in the current window if it is untitled.
• Dropping a folder onto an untitled window now opens that folder in the window it was dropped onto.

Apm Changes

• Fixed an issue where apm commands would fail if RVM was being used.
• Fixed an issue where apm unpublish would fail when run without a package name.
• Added the number of stars a package has to the command output.
• Add a –language option to the apm init command that generates a new language grammar package.

Other Major Changes

• Fixed an issue where the editor would log document.createNodeIterator errors.
• The editor DOM elements now have a data-grammar attribute that contains all the segments of the current grammar’s scope, such as source js.
• The workspace DOM element now contains the current UI theme name as a CSS class.
• Fixed an issue when moving to the first character of a line with leading hard tabs when invisibles were enabled.
• Fixed an issue on Mac where the window’s title bar would not be visible in certain scenarios.
• Added a new grammar for SQL files with Mustache templates named SQL (Mustache).
• Fixed an issue where the Styleguide would not open.

In this article I will show you how to install Atom 0.124.0 on Fedora 20 systems.

Follow the below instructions exactly, in order to get a successful installation.

Install the needed dependencies:

$ sudo yum -y install node npm libgnome-keyring-devel

Update nmp and adjust the PATH:

$ cd ~
$ npm install npm
$ export PATH="$HOME/node_modules/.bin:$PATH"

Install Google Chrome Stable, so that the libudev.so.0 gets satisfied:

$ sudo sh -c 'cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo <<EOS
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOS'
$ sudo yum -y install google-chrome-stable

Remove gyp, to avoid conflicts:

$ sudo yum -y remove gyp

Get the Atom sources and build the software:

$ git clone https://github.com/atom/atom
$ cd atom
$ ./script/build

Set execution permissions:

$ sudo chmod +x /tmp/atom-build/Atom/atom

For an easier usage, do:

$ echo "alias atom=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/google/chrome ~/atom/atom.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

To open Atom 0.124.0, just open a terminal and type atom.

Optional, to remove atom, do:

$ rm -f ~/atom
$ sed '/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/google/chrome ~/atom/atom.sh/d' ~/.bahsrc