The objective is to install Atom editor on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux. To start we first need to obtain Atom's installation package. Navigate to Atom's project git repository and download the atom-amd64.deb DEB package. Alternatively, use wget command to get the latest version:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/install-atom-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux