This repository contains PKGBUILDs and related files necessary to build Atom and Electron binary packages for Arch Linux. Pre-built packages are available by enabling [atom] repository in /etc/pacman.conf:

[atom]
Server = http://noaxiom.org/$repo/$arch

You should also add the repo's key to your trusted keys:

sudo pacman-key -r B0544167
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key B0544167

Check the Arch wiki for more information.

Build method

Our method of building Atom is slightly different from the one officially recommended by the Atom team.

If you follow Atom build instructions, the build system will download a binary copy of Electron and include it in your distribution. If you follow Electron build instructions, it will use a binary copy of libchromiumcontent, the library upon which Electron is based.

Our packages, on the other hand, are entirely built for source.

Another difference with upstream builds is that they ship Atom, Electron and apm (the Atom package manager) all in one distribution, and they rename the electron executable as atom. We ship three distinct packages named atom, electron and nodejs-atom-package-manager, and the atom package depends on the other two. Moreover, nodejs-atom-package-manager uses the system nodejs installation, rather than downloading a binary node executable as the official build does.