How to Install Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04

Sublime Text is a powerful text editor also available for Linux systems. It has lots of features which you must love to use. This article will help you to install Sublime Text 3 and Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu systems using apt-get and PPA.

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

Step 1 – Enable Sublime PPA

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

Step 2 – Install Sublime Text 3

Sublime text PPA is now confiured on your system. Let’s install sublime text latest version on your system by running following commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sublime-text

Step 3 – Launch Sublime Text Editor

Use system navigation menubar to access Sublime Text editor.

Happy coding.