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!