Q:

How to uninstall Atom text editor on Linux?

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

A:

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/

A:

For Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 18.04, use the following:
sudo apt-get remove atom

A:

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

