Installation of Atom Editor on ZorinOS, 2022
$sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/atom-amd64.deb [sudo] password for amar: Selecting previously unselected package atom-nightly. (Reading database ... 273426 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../amar/Downloads/atom-amd64.deb ... Unpacking atom-nightly (1.62.0-nightly0) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of atom-nightly: atom-nightly depends on git; however: Package git is not installed. dpkg: error processing package atom-nightly (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: atom-nightly ----------------------------- $sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common libgconf-2-4 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: git git-man liberror-perl Suggested packages: git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn The following NEW packages will be installed: git git-man liberror-perl 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 5,465 kB of archives. After this operation, 38.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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