Fedora: Atom Builder

A bash helper to build Atom Editor in Fedora.

This is a unattended script to install dependencies, get latest Atom release sources and generate an *.rpm installer for your distro (Fedora).

Is intended for Fedora 32 bits arch. Should work for 64 bits, but there is an *.rpm installer in official Atom releases already.

Note: Changes in build procedure throws errors for versions 1.10.1+. Some bugs in x86 building where fixed in atom-1.13.*-beta versions, so 1.11 and 1.12 atom versions are incompatibles with x86 building.

Dependencies

As Atom build requirement, you will need Node.js and npm installed:

• Node.js (0.10.x or above)
• npm v1.4.x or above (automatically bundled with Node.js)
  • npm -v to check the version.
  • npm config set python /usr/bin/python2 -g to ensure that gyp uses python2.
    • You might need to run this command as sudo, depending on how you have set up npm.

If you have not installed yet, you can check the node installation instructions for Fedora.

Note: Other dependencies will be installed automatically via run.sh (or script/install-dependencies task).

Installing

After install Node.js in your system, you can download Fedora Atom Builder using one of this options:

Option 1: Manual

You can manually download latest release and unzip it in any folder.

Then, go to resultant folder, where run.sh bash script is.

cd /path/to/fedora-atom-builder
./run.sh

Option 2: Using Bower

If you already have Bower installed in your system, you can use it to download Fedora Atom Builder and execute run.sh bash script:

# Get the latest release (use 'master' to get the development version):
bower install nelson6e65/fedora-atom-builder#latest

# Go to the download directory
cd bower_components/fedora-atom-builder

Note: Bower requires node, npm and git installed.

Usage

It's simple: Just go to fedora-atom-builder directory where you downloaded and execute run.sh:

cd /path/to/fedora-atom-builder
./run.sh

You can also execute this command instead: sh run.sh.

You only will be asked for sudo privilegies when installing dependecies.

After success, this will create a *.rmp file in the dist/ directory.

Advanced usage

You can, instead, run task by task (useful to skip installation/update of dependencies when you are sure you already have installed):

Install all dependencies

Download and install all dependencies. You can skip this if you already installed recently or you did it manually. yum will ask you for sudo password.

script/install-dependencies

Get sources of Atom Editor

This will download Atom sources.

script/get-sources

It will be used bower to get the latest stable Atom version. So, if you want to skip validations, you can run instead:

bower install

Build atom sources and RPM installer:

This is mandatory, obviously. After get atom sources and install dependencies, you ned to build installer:

script/build-sources
script/build-rpm

After this, you can install the *.rpm file in dist directory:

sudo dnf install dist/atom-*.rpm

Note: You may need to make ejecutable the files inside script directory to be able to run it directly.

Done! You have the latest Atom Editor updated in your Fedora! Easy 🍰.

This instructions was tested in Fedora 24 TwentyFour, kernel i686 Linux 4.6.4-301.fc24.i686.