i was reading the documentation looking for a way to cleanly uninstall Atom from my linux OS, but i didn't find anything related.
Is there a set of directories to delete? or maybe an script to run?
Thanks for the attention
I have posted the same question in the Github Project Repository and this is the complete answer: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2195#issuecomment-42917489
The commands to execute are:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/atom
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/apm
rm -rf ~/atom
rm -rf ~/.atom
rm -rf ~/.config/Atom-Shell
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/atom/
For Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 18.04, use the following:
sudo apt-get remove atom
If you installed atom using the .deb package, you can remove it using this command:
sudo apt-get remove atom
If you want to remove any config directories, you can use this command:
sudo apt-get purge atom
Atom may also be installed as a Snap. You can find out by using:
$ sudo snap list
If you see it in the list you can remove it with:
$ sudo snap remove atom
For more on snaps: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/snappy
on Ubuntu (15.04):
after installing the .deb from atom.io, I found the package available under the Ubuntu Software center.
In RHEL (I guess also Fedora/CentOS), just type: yum erase atom
I would use simply
sudo apt remove --purge atom
since it is also suggested in the (un-official) installation page here
On Ubuntu 14.04, with Atom 1.0, I didn't find anything under /usr/local/bin/.
However, the install was at /usr/share/atom/, which I deleted.
This is what I have on Linux Mint install
$ uname --all
Linux lenny-home 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ ls /usr/share/atom
libchromiumcontent.so libnotify.so.4 locales content_shell.pak libffmpegsumo.so
libudev.so.0 resources icudtl.dat libgcrypt.so.11
LICENSE version$ ls .atom/
compile-cache init.coffee nohup.out snippets.cson styles.less config.cson keymap.cson packages storage
$ file /usr/bin/X11/atom
/usr/bin/X11/atom: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable
I used Ubuntu Software Centre to reinstall it, then to completely (uninstall it) remove it. Then Installed Electron. Hope this helps.
If you have installed Atom by .deb, then you can just remove by:
sudo dpkg -r atom
I have used below command in ubuntu 16.04 and it worked.
sudo apt-get remove atom
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23621181/how-to-uninstall-atom-text-editor-on-linux