How to Install Sublime Text Editor on Ubuntu, Debian & LinuxMint with PPA

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 for installing Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu and Debian 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.

Features

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 plateform including OS X.
• It provides functionality to find and replace with regular expressions.
• We can make batch edits with multiple Selections.
• Using sublime multiple selections, we can rename variables quickly.
• The Command Palette gives fast access to functionality.
• Using goto anything to quickly navigate between files.
• Using goto anything can also be used to show a function, line or word within a file.

Install Sublime Text

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-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text

Access Sublime Text Editor

Use system navigation menubar to access Sublime Text editor.

Happy coding.