How can I make the package list portable?

[gmmeyer]

If I want to take my atom stuff to another computer, like my vim dotfiles, how can I do that easily? I cannot figure it out. The ~/.atom directory makes me think that it could be easily portable, but I’m not so sure.

[leedohm]

The non-directory contents of the ~/.atom directory are portable:

• config.cson
• init.coffee
• keymap.cson
• overrides.cson
• snippets.cson
• styles.less

I use the rcm tool to synchronize my dotfiles in this way.

[gmmeyer]

But, not the actual list off packages that you use?

[leedohm]

Ah, sorry … that’ll teach me to reply between meetings …

In that case, this is really a duplicate of another topic and you can take a look at my reply there:

Installed packages list into single file

There are a couple different ways to do this: Use the Stars functionality to keep a list of the packages you use Use a script to list the directories in the ~/.atom/packages folder and save that to a file Stars You can use the https://atom.io/packages site to find the packages you like and Star them. Or you can star the packages you like from the command line by issuing the command apm star package-name. Then you can install all of your starred packages at any time by executing the command…

[gmmeyer]

Oh, no, the first part was very helpful! I was just also wondering about the second thing, thank you very much!

[focusaurus]

Here’s the shell function I use in combination with my dotfiles git repo.

save_atom () {
	ls ~/.atom/packages > ~/projects/dotfiles/atom/packages.txt
}

[leedohm]

The new apm list --installed --bare command lists only user-installed packages and includes their version numbers so you can ensure that you install the same package versions on all machines.