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The Atom text editor, newly introduced by the GitHub team, looks like "a hackable text editor for the 21st Century", and I must say, the screenshots have lured me. Official binaries are only available for OS X. After going open-source many have created their own binaries, and some even added them to repos. But when reading a tutorial on installation I read this:

Currently Atom only works on 64-bit (on Linux) so if you use Ubuntu 32-bit, you can't install it by using this PPA and not even by compiling it for yourself.

So is there any way to install it on Ubuntu 13.10 32-bit? Maybe 64-bit emulation or something?

Josh Pinto
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Atom text editor is currently available for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu from the Atom text editor PPA with different builds for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Atom text editor can be installed from the terminal by running the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

The current version of Atom text editor from ppa:webupd8team/atom updated to Ubuntu 16.04/16.10/17.04/17.10 is 1.0.10 1.22.1.

For more information about Atom text editor visit the official Atom website. A .deb file for installing Atom text editor is currently available from the official Atom website. but only for 64-bit operating systems. To install Atom text editor from the official Atom website on 32-bit Ubuntu follow the instructions in the accepted answer to How I can create a 32-bit version of Atom?.

There is currently an Atom text editor snap package that can be installed in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu using the command sudo snap install --classic atom however the Atom snap package is only available for 64-bit OSs.

karel
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Sorry, there is no way to run 64bit binaries on 32bit hardware (that i'm aware of). I couldn't even install a 64bit operating system in Virtualbox on my 32bit laptop.

But if you only want 32bit Atom text editor:

Linux build is currently 64bit-only, because we only have 64bit libchromiumcontent and atom-shell on Linux for now.

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1814#issuecomment-42318420

I think we can expect a 32bit version some time soon.

Your cpu is 32bit if in 'cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep flags' there's no 'lm' listed.

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