How to Install Sublime Text Editor on Ubuntu


Sublime Text is a cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and its functionality can be extended by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses.

This article describes “How to install Sublime Text Editor on Ubuntu”

Features

  • Editing files side by side.

  • It supported all Platforms.

  • It provides functionality to find and replace with regular expressions.

  • The Command Palette gives fast access to functionality.

  • “Goto Anything,” quick navigation to files, symbols, or lines.

  • Python-based plugin API.

  • Compatible with many language grammars from TextMate.

Installing Sublime

There are two version’s of Sublime Text is available to install, To install Sublime 2, use the following commands –

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2

The sample output should be like this –

Sublime Text 2 packages - the .deb will automatically download the latest build from http://www.sublimetext.com/dev or beta from http://www.sublimetext.com/2 (Adobe Flash Player installer - style).

More info and feedback:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/sublime-text-2-ppa-separate-development.html
   More info: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/sublime-text-2
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpsv1jnez9/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpsv1jnez9/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key EEA14886 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpsv1jnez9/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key EEA14886: public key "Launchpad VLC" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:                imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK

To update package index, use the following command-

$ sudo apt-get update

The sample output should be like this-

Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease [65.9 kB]
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Sources [109 kB]
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease [15.5 kB]
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Sources [4,035 B]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Sources [34.0 kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Sources [2,750 B]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main amd64 Packages [444 kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages [739 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages [753 B]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en [357 B]
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_IN
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages
Get:11 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease [65.9 kB]
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages [13.0 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages [125 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse amd64 Packages [4,991 B]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main i386 Packages [417 kB]
Get:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg [316 B]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release
................................................................

To install Sublime Text Editor, use the follwoing command –

$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text

The sample output should be like this –

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   gtk2-engines-pixbuf libbs2b0 libopusfile0 libpyside1.2 libqmmp-misc
   libqmmpui0 libshiboken1.2 libsidplayfp libtidy-0.99-0 linux-headers-4.2.0-27
   linux-headers-4.2.0-27-generic linux-image-4.2.0-27-generic
   linux-image-extra-4.2.0-27-generic linux-signed-image-4.2.0-27-generic
   php7.0-opcache python-beautifulsoup python-feedparser python-html2text
   python-magic python-oauth2 python-pyside.qtcore python-pyside.qtgui
   python-pyside.qtnetwork python-pyside.qtwebkit python-pysqlite2 python-regex
   python-sqlalchemy python-sqlalchemy-ext python-support python-unity-singlet
   python-utidylib
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   sublime-text
0 upgraded, 1 newly

To install sublime 3, use the following commands-

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

To open sublime, use the following command –

$ subl

The sample output should be like this –

Congratulations! Now, you know “How to Install Sublime Text Editor on Ubuntu ”. We’ll learn more about these types of commands in our next Linux post. Keep reading!

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Updated on: 22-Jan-2020

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