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How to install Sublime text editor 3.1.1 in Ubuntu 18.04

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To install Sublime Text Editor 3.1.1 in Ubuntu 18.04

The Sublime Text editor is a lightweight, multi-platform, text editor which is widely used for writing programming and markup languages and it is a feature-rich extension of vim text editor. It does not require any plugins and is considered to be a sophisticated text editor application widely used for CSS3 and HTML5 code. This tutorial explains how to install the Sublime text editor in Ubuntu.

Installation

Let' s first add the key file for Sublime text editor by making use of the following command. 

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
OK

And then, proceed to add the repository which contains sublime text package.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-add-repository " deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" 
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                                    
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                            
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease                          
Get:5 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease [2,562 B]               
Get:6 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ Packages [725 B]
Fetched 3,287 B in 1s (2,419 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Now you can proceed to install the sublime text using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install sublime-text -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.

The following NEW packages will be installed:

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Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text.
(Reading database ... 167405 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../sublime-text_3176_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking sublime-text (3176) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Setting up sublime-text (3176) ...

After installation, you can access the application from the menu.
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You can verify the version by navigating to help menu.
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With this, the method to install Sublime text editor 3.1.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What is Graphical issues in Sublime text editor?

A

Most graphical issues, such as the window appearing black, or flickering when opening menus, can be resolved by running in OpenGL mode. There are two ways to do this:

Run with --opengl on the command line, OR
Select the menu item Preferences/General Preferences, and add the line 'renderer opengl' to the end, then restart.

Q

Can Sublime Text be run from a USB key?

A

Yes. Sublime Text may be installed to any location, however it will read and write your settings to %APPDATA%\Sublime Text. You can change this to use a directory on the USB key, by running Sublime Text with the --data flag, for example:

SublimeText.exe --data "E:\Sublime Text Data"

Q

Does it have a adobe standards ?

A

No the options are limited while comparing to adobe products, But its better photo editor for linux

Q

What is the Plugins life cycle of sublime text editor?

A

At importing time, plugins may not call any API functions, with the exception of sublime.version(), sublime.platform(), sublime.architecture() and sublime.channel().

If a plugin defines a module level function plugin_loaded(), this will be called when the API is ready to use. Plugins may also define plugin_unloaded(), to get notified just before the plugin is unloaded.

Q

How to compile the source code of Sublime text editor from command line?

A

For compile the source code of Sublime text, use the following command as given below,
sudo apt-get install libtool m4 gcc
cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/archive/master.zip /> unzip master.zip
cd webserver-master
./a

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