This article explains how to install sublime text 3 on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux Distro.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor.
This is a cross-platform editor available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It is free to download and evaluate, but you need to purchase a license for continued use. It uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty at the same time taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Features,
- Performance & Speed
- Cross-Platform
- GIT integration
- Plugin Support
- Highly customizable
- Goto Anything, Definition
- Multiple Selections
- Command Palette
- Powerful API and Package Ecosystem
- Customize Anything
- Split Editing
- Instant Project Switch
Refer official page for further details.
Install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu
Now let’s see how to install sublime text on Ubuntu Linux.
1. Open a terminal and run below command to install GPG Key
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
2. Apt would be already set up to work with https source, but if you face any issue run below command.
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
Now, the sublime text is available as Stable and Dev build. If you are evaluating it, then install Stable. Dev is for the developer community.
Stable
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
Dev
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/dev/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
3. Run below command to refresh the package list
sudo apt-get update
4. Install sublime using below command
sudo apt-get install sublime-text
Summary
Sublime Text is nice to have an editor for your Ubuntu system.
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