no apt package "atom" .but there is a snap with that name

Question

I installed Atom. Then I removed it with sudo apt-get remove atom command. Now when I tried sudo apt-get remove --purge atom, it shows no apt package atom, but there is a snap with that name.

How to remove that snap?

Answer 1

The atom package that was installed by sudo apt install atom has already been removed, which is the reason why you got the following error message:

No apt package "atom", but there is a snap with that name.
Try "snap install atom"

E: Unable to locate package atom