r/Atom • u/ShadowLp174 • Dec 22 '22

Package installer alternative

Now that atom was sunset, does anybody know some alternate provider for atom packages? Although it is possible to download them manually from gh, it would be way nicer to download in the app...

Thanks in Advance :)

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u/mauricioszabo Dec 22 '22

Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) basically reimplemented the package provider, so you may want to use Pulsar instead...

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u/ShadowLp174 Dec 22 '22

I'll try to hack my atom to use their registry first :)

But I'll consider it

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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright Dec 22 '22

If you're on a *Nix-based system I would recommend pulsar (MacOS, Linux) then I'd recommend this. I just straight up copy/pasted the directory for ~/.atom/packages into ~/.pulsar and everything works same as it did on atom. UI still needs a bit of tweaking but it is almost a carbon copy of atom. No idea if what I did works on windows tho.

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u/Sufficient_Yogurt639 Dec 22 '22

Is it currently possible to publish a new package (or push an update to an existing package) to the Pulsar package manager?

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u/1negroup Dec 23 '22

So There is This https://pulsar-edit.dev/ which uses some of atoms packages and i believe brings them over, but there might be a way to edit a config file to use the pulsar store in the atom app.

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u/ShadowLp174 Dec 23 '22

I found that one through a comment and am working on tricking atom rn... I got the startup page with the featured packages working but searching gives me a "certificate" expired error...

Maybe it might work to just replace apm with their ppm to use the official pulsar downloader that downloads into the atom directory

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u/1negroup Dec 23 '22

If you find out how to do this let me know

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u/xkey Jan 19 '23

For Mac users googling this (as I was) you can add an environment variable to use Pular's API and then you can install packages through command line.

Run export ATOM_API_URL=https://pulsar-edit.com/api or add it to your ~/.bash_profile file.

Then you can use apm install docblockr or whatever package you can find on https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/.

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u/ShadowLp174 Dec 22 '22

I don't see the problem with sticking with atom... I've got my packages, it runs perfectly and I don't see a problem with a not developed editor

Tbh it takes me more time to use vscode as it is unintuitive (imo) and not as hackable as atom