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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)?

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    A few suggestions can be found here after a quick search... raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/44622/…
    – rohtua
    Mar 9, 2019 at 17:46
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    Possible duplicate of How to add ppa entries manually on Raspberry Pi
    – Dougie
    Mar 10, 2019 at 0:10
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    Thank you for your suggestion. In the end, the answers in the other post do help me solve my problem (i.e. install add-apt-repository). However, I feel that my question addresses the issue from a different angle, as my question was explicitly on why add-apt-repository doesn't work (the other post seems to already assume this). My understanding now is that this command simply doesn't come pre-packaged with Raspbian, but there is a way to install it. So I think it would be helpful to leave it in case someone is faced with the same issue.
    – johnwolf1987
    Mar 10, 2019 at 20:41
  • I would to point to this discussion unix.stackexchange.com/a/486841/544081 and I would to mention that this accepted way doesn't work as it should. Just now, I'm getting the error "gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found", so it is not just simple installation. Better to avoid it.
    – dominikj111
    Oct 24, 2022 at 9:41

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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

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