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I'm on the verge of giving up installing the atom editor on a university machine to which I don't have root access to. The instructions on the Github page for building from source require some dependencies that need root access (libgnome-keyring-dev). An alternative suggested to me was to download the source code and try to compile it myself to a local directory. I'm finding it hard to get started on this however, because there are a large number of javascript files (I would appreciate any help on this). Any one with any suggestions or an easier way to do this?

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    Building from source requires root access, seriously? Edit the question and provide this link – It’s your job, not ours. Commented Sep 18, 2015 at 17:44
  • If building from source truly requires root, then you're better off finding a different editor written by a project team that doesn't do bad things (like require the build to be performed as root). Commented Sep 18, 2015 at 19:00
  • @IncnisMrsi Edited. (P.S: It wouldn't kill you to be polite) Commented Sep 18, 2015 at 19:16
  • It's written in javascript, and you should notice a shebang with something like node which stands for the nodejs executable in something like main.js. It's almost the same idea as other scripting languages here. Commented Sep 18, 2015 at 22:00

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Why don't you try unpacking, but not fully installing, the binary package for your OS. For example, I looked in the releases dir and downloaded (with e.g. firefox, curl, or wget) the 64 bit rpm for my Fedora 22, into a newly created directory, myatom, then unpacked it with 

cd myatom
rpm2cpio x86_64.rpm | cpio -cid

and ran 

~/myatom/usr/bin/atom

and it seemed to work.

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  • Extract and run is having this error: [14412:0111/124727.124898:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that [...]/share/atom/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. Trace/BPT trap Commented Jan 11, 2021 at 18:50
  • Things have probably changed after 5 years. You should post a new question referring back to this question and saying what happened. Commented Jan 11, 2021 at 18:57

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