# Maintaining separate Atom install for Juno?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/maintaining-separate-atom-install-for-juno/30663>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [November 3, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/maintaining-separate-atom-install-for-juno/30663 "2019-11-03T18:56:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/maintaining-separate-atom-install-for-juno/30663/6 "2019-11-14T16:21:21Z")

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Also see

> [@Quick Way to Disable/Enable Juno](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quick-way-to-disable-enable-juno/31068/2):
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> There are mainly 2 ways to do this: The first and recommended way is what @mortenpi showed in slack: from [Slack](https://julialang.slack.com/archives/C6A044SQH/p1573313147161100?thread_ts=1573311257.160100&cid=C6A044SQH:) if you can easily access a terminal, you can set ATOM\_HOME to point somewhere other than ~/.atom before launching Atom, e.g. ATOM\_HOME=~/atom-clean atom I actually always put this script into my PATH: [https://github.com/mortenpi/juno-debian/blob/master/src/juno](https://github.com/mortenpi/juno-debian/blob/master/src/juno) so my main Atom environment is clean and if I want Juno, I just launch juno The second is to use [atomic-management](https://github.com/harmsk/atomic-management), w…

I really like @mortenpi’s idea of a `juno` script that starts Atom with a different `ATOM_PATH`.

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