[Installation] Sublime Text in Linux!

Sublime Text : The text editor you'll fall in love with

 

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. gedit has its own benefits : It comes by-default in Ubuntu, and its the first experience a novice gets of a text editor in Linux probably(no offense to anyone :P). But by time, you might get bored by the simpicity, and might need a beautiful and a little intelligent code editor. If that is the case, SublimeText is just for you!

 

Installation :

1. As usual, you can go to www.sublimetext.com, and download the package suitable for your system : either a .deb for direct installation using apt or a .tar.bz2 file, which you can than extract and follow the instructions in the README.
2. or, you can proceed via terminal as follows -
   (this askubuntu answer is very helpful!)

For Sublime-Text-2:
For Sublime-Text-3:

However, I am still not satisfied, since I am not able to run it using terminal, like I used gedit to. Unfortunately, Installation of ST doesn't automatically create the symbolic Link. So? We create a symbolic link for it.

For recent versions of Ubuntu and the latest SublimeText 3, the installation directory has changed slightly. We now find it sublime_text inside /opt/sublime_text instead of /opt/sublime. Hence the following command in terminal will do -

(If this doesn't work for you, you might wanna change /opt/sublime_text to /opt/sublime.)

Now I can edit any file using SublimeText by issuing command from terminal as subl mycode.java

Cheers!