How to uninstall Atom on Ubuntu 17.10?

Question

I am looking for a way to uninstall Atom on Ubuntu 17.10. Is there any script for it? I want to completely uninstall Atom from my machine.

Solution 1

To completely remove a package:

sudo apt purge <package_name>

In your case:

sudo apt purge atom

But if Atom was installed from snap? You have to remove it by snap. From the command line run this:

snap remove atom

Solution 2

It's easy! If you have installed using snap, then run:

sudo snap remove atom

Else, using apt-get:

sudo apt-get remove atom

After this remove the dependencies using:

sudo apt-get autoremove

Done!

Comments

[Melebius]

It depends on the way you installed it. If you used another way, not mentioned in the current answers, please edit your question accordingly!

[Jon]

Sudo apt remove atom.

[Jon]

Might work.....

[Brian C]

What if you don't remember how you installed it? I guess you can try both but is there an easy way to check first?

[BeastOfCaerbannog]

@BrianC You can run snap list and look for Atom in the output. If it's there, that means that it's installed with snap. If not, it's installed using apt/apt-get.