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.

It depends on the way you installed it. If you used another way, not mentioned in the current answers, please [edit] your question accordingly! — Melebius, Jun 04 '18 at 07:11

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 24 '22 at 21:24

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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

edited Mar 24 '22 at 21:24

BeastOfCaerbannog

answered Jun 04 '18 at 05:51

dolpa

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? – Brian C Feb 25 '21 at 03:21
@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. – BeastOfCaerbannog Mar 24 '22 at 21:31

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 24 '22 at 21:27

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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!

edited Mar 24 '22 at 21:27

BeastOfCaerbannog

answered Jun 03 '18 at 13:45

Jatin-CBS

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