How to Install Sublime on Debian 11/10

Sublime Text is a powerful text editor also available for Linux systems. It has lots of features which you must love to use. This tutorial will help you with installing Sublime Text 4 and Sublime Text 3 on your Debian 11, Debian 10, and Debian 8 Linux systems using the personal package archive (PPA).

You may also like other powerful text editors like Atom, Visual Studio Code, Notepadqq, and Brackets for you Debian based systems.

Below is some listed available features in Sublime text. You can also visit sublime text website for more details.

• Editing files side by side.
• Sublime Text is available for various platform including OS X.
• It provides functionality to find and replace with regular expressions.
• We can make batch edits with multiple Selections.
• … and many more

Prerequisites

Login to Debian system using sudo privileged user or root user to install a Sublime text editor. For remote systems login with ssh and install or update the following package on your system.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https 

Install Sublime on Debian

Use the sublime official Apt repository for the installation on Ubuntu, Debian and Linuxmint systems. First import gpg key on your system.

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add - 

Now, add the Sublime text apt PPA in your system using the following command.

echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list 

Let’s install sublime text latest version on your system.

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install sublime-text 

If the installer prompted for the confirmation, press ‘Y’ to continue installation.

Using Sublime

Search for the “Sublime” under the applications. You will see a launcher icon for the Sublime text application. Click this launch to start application.

The application will be started. Then you can open your project toolbar.

Happy coding.