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Everytime I try to install Atom on my Ubuntu 16.04.3 machine as a snap app the terminal freezes at a point after the core and Atom app have downloaded and begun installing.

The computer does not accept any keyboard or mouse input. No error is shown on the terminal display.

I tried installing Atom by typing in the command sudo snap install --classic atom as stated in the official documentation here.

I am unable to take a screenshot of the terminal freezing as the computer does not accept any keyboard input and the REISUB option does not work. I am forced to hold down the power button and restart the computer (after giving it half an hour to see if it may unfreeze).

After restarting the computer first in recovery mode and then on to normal mode, I can see that the snap has not installed. snap list

I tried the installation three times and it freezes repeatedly at the same point when it begins installing.

How do I install Atom as a snap? Will installing it from the Ubuntu Software centre be any different?

Akshit Bhalla
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    Can you open another terminal, and in it run dmesg -Tw (to tail the syslog) and try again. Perhaps you will see some output in the syslog before the system freezes? Also, can you snap version to let us know what version of the snapd package you have? – popey Aug 15 '17 at 12:11
  • Thanks to your line of code from the documentation I could install it. On my computer neither the deb downloaded from Atom nor the snap via Ubuntu Software where installing. – Ramon Suarez Sep 15 '17 at 07:53
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    @RamonSuarez can you write up what you did as an answer and accept it please? :) – Ads20000 Oct 18 '17 at 10:43
  • Written @Ads20000 , I'm not the OP so I don't think I can accept it. – Ramon Suarez Oct 19 '17 at 08:17
  • @RamonSuarez ah yeah sorry I didn't notice that. Thanks for writing it :) – Ads20000 Oct 19 '17 at 11:26

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Thanks to your line of code from the documentation I could install it. On my computer neither the deb downloaded from Atom nor the snap via Ubuntu Software where installing.

sudo snap install --classic atom

And it also has the advantage that it autoupdates Atom.

Ramon Suarez
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