Installing Pros Problems

Hey all,
I’ve recently started to learn programming and since my entire team programs in Pros, I decided to download it and begin learning. But for some reason after installing it, when I open Atom there is no “Pros” button at the top to create a new project. I thought that the Pros plugin hasn’t installed properly so I’ve re-installed it many times but that doesn’t seem to fix it. I was wondering how I could fix this in order to get the Pros plugin to work with atom. (Sorry if this is a really noobish question, I wasn’t able to find a thread about this.)

I’ve also attached a screenshot showing atom and Pros installation finished:

What you should do is check if the PROS installation was successful in another way: open your Terminal (or Command Prompt, in your case), and test if PROS is it installed:


pros -v

Keep in mind that if you cannot get atom to work, you can use the CLI to interact with pros fully. Now if, PROS is there, you want to install the Atom plugin a different way, using Atom’s provided CLI. If you haven’t done so already, install the CLI, you can do this from (some menu in the Atom window?) I don’t remember exactly, it should be fairly easy to google. Install pros using


apm install pros

And restart atom (after completion)

Also, if you pick up Atom just from installing PROS, you’ll have an old version of Atom. And Atom doesn’t always update internally well. Updating Atom help solve a lot of similar issues for us.

Thank you! I was able to install Pros by going to Install Package tab and installing from there.