How to install sublime Text editor Debian 8.6
To install Sublime Text editor debian 8.6
Sublime Text is a cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It supports many programming and markup languages. Its functionality can be extended by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses.
Features
- " Goto Anything," quick navigation to files, symbols, or lines
- " Command palette" uses adaptive matching for quick keyboard invocation of arbitrary commands
- Simultaneous editing: simultaneously make the same interactive changes to multiple selected areas
- Python-based plugin API
- Project-specific preferences
- Extensive customizability via JSON settings files, including project-specific and platform-specific settings
- Cross platform (Windows, OS X, Linux)
- Compatible with many language grammars from TextMate
Installing Sublime Text Editor
It is required to download the Sublime Text Editor file for Debian from the Sublime text website. So open the browser to download the file.
Open the Sublime Editor official page.
Copy the download link from the website.
Now, paste the copied file link on the terminal. Complete the download by using the wget command.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb
--2016-12-30 20:04:11-- https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb
Resolving download.sublimetext.com (download.sublimetext.com)... 104.236.0.104
Connecting to download.sublimetext.com (download.sublimetext.com)|104.236.0.104|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7746994 (7.4M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb’
sublime-text_build- 100%[=====================> ] 7.39M 133KB/s in 80s
2016-12-30 20:05:32 (94.8 KB/s) - ‘ sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb’ saved [7746994/7746994]
Now is the time to install the sublime editor. Use the dpkg -i command for the same purpose.
root@linuxhelp:~# dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text.
(Reading database ... 145604 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack sublime-text_build-3126_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking sublime-text (3126) ...
Setting up sublime-text (3126) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Sublime Text Editor is installed. Click the Activities tab and type sublime.
Now click the sublime icon to open the editor.