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I am trying to install Atom text editor on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Raspbian as OS.

I would like to install it via a package manager using the following commands (instructions found here):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
apt-get update
apt-get install atom

The problem is that the add-apt-repository does not seem to exist on this version of Linux. I searched for it in /bin and /usr/bin and it was not there.

My questions:
* Is this normal?
* Is it possible to install the add-apt-repository command?
* If yes: how can I install it (or where can I find this information)?
* If no: are there any alternatives (i.e. installing a PPA repository in some other way)?

johnwolf1987
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install software-properties-common [add-apt-repository]

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Then you can start to run the standard procedure

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom

HOWERVER: it looks like there is no binary for ATOM on RASPBIAN. So at the end of the day installing ATOM this way might fail due to missing binary for RASPBIAN. I suggest to continue reading here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49219192/atom-on-raspbian

tswaehn
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