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[KingOfThePirates]

Output
EACCES, unlink '/home/me/.atom/packages/racer/.npmignore'

Permissions

me-desktop packages # ls -al /home/me/.atom/packages/racer
total 136
drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root    4096 Mar 23 18:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 me me  4096 Apr 22 17:48 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    1708 Mar 23 18:32 CHANGELOG.md
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    4096 Mar 23 18:32 lib
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    1073 Mar 23 18:32 LICENSE.md
drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root    4096 Mar 23 18:32 node_modules
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      37 Mar 23 18:32 .npmignore
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    4834 Mar 23 18:32 package.json
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   86315 Mar 23 18:32 racer.gif
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    1005 Mar 23 18:32 README.md
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    4096 Mar 23 18:32 spec
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     200 Mar 23 18:32 .travis.yml
me-desktop packages # 

sudo chown -R whoami /home/me/.atom/packages/racer/ had no output but did not change permissions.

[alkama]

I have no clue.
Strange that Atom installed packages as root...
Maybe you ran atom as root during the installation of racer?
Maybe you could delete the package and reinstall it? We have no control upon installation process.