Install Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu

Pretty cool! Didn't realise this, but Sublime Text 3 is available for Linux as well! Today I took a few minutes to download/install it and to even make it use some of the GUI themes for better coding experience.

All of these steps are taken from the Sublime Text 3 website.

Step 1: Activate Sublime Text 3 repo

First, we install the key to trust Sublime Text 3 repo:

greys@xps:~ $ wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
 [sudo] password for greys: 
 OK

Now we ensure apt-get will support https protocol for working with repos:

greys@xps:~ $ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

We update apt sources with the repo URL:

greys@xps~ $ echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list

Step 2: Install Sublime Text 3

We refresh apt package info:

$ sudo apt-get update

and install the packages:

greys@xps:~/proj/unixtutorial/examples $ sudo apt-get install sublime-text
 Reading package lists… Done
 Building dependency tree       
 Reading state information… Done
 The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   dkms libgsoap-2.8.75 libvncserver1
 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
 The following NEW packages will be installed
   sublime-text
 0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 73 not to upgrade.
 Need to get 9,835 kB of archives.
 After this operation, 34.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
 Get:1 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ sublime-text 3211 [9,835 kB]
 Fetched 9,835 kB in 8s (1,189 kB/s)                                                                                    
 Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text.
 (Reading database … 271734 files and directories currently installed.)
 Preparing to unpack …/sublime-text_3211_amd64.deb …
 Unpacking sublime-text (3211) …
 Setting up sublime-text (3211) …
 Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu1) …
 Processing triggers for mime-support (3.63ubuntu1) …
 Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
 Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) …

That's it! Sublime Text 3 is now installed and can be started using the subl command:

My primary environment is macOS, but it's comforting to know that I can fall back on Dell XPS laptop with Ubuntu to edit some Ansible playbooks in a similar way.

See Also

• Sublime Text 3