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Debian - Install Atom Editor

Debian atom text-editor

Atom is a fantastic text editor that acts as my favourite tool for editing/viewing markdown files.

Steps

wget https://atom.io/download/deb -O atom.deb
sudo dpkg -i atom.deb
rm atom.deb

Launch Atom From CLI

atom

References

Last updated: 9th May 2020
First published: 16th August 2018

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