Archives For November 30, 1999

Sublime Text 3.2 was released yesterday with first-class Git integration, GTK3 port, and many other new features.

Sublime Text 3.2 release highlights:

  • First-class Git integration
  • Incremental diff functionality tracks changes to files being edited.
  • Moved to GTK3, and various high DPI fixes for Linux.
  • New theme functionality and block caret support.
  • Support for Unicode 11.0
  • Many syntax highlighting improvements to Clojure, D, Go, Lua.

How to Install Sublime Text 3.2 in Ubuntu:

The easiest way is to install the community maintained Snap package (run in sandbox).

For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, simply open Ubuntu Software search for and install sublime-text

For Ubuntu 16.04, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the snap:

sudo apt install snapd && sudo snap install sublime-text

Install Sublime Text 3.2 via its official apt repository:

For those who don’t prefer Snap package, do following steps to install Sublime Text from its official apt repository:

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the keyring:

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

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then run command to add the apt repository:

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

3. Finally install sublime-text package either via Synaptic package manager or by running command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install sublime-text

Uninstall:

To remove the editor, run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove sublime-text

To remove the apt repository, go to Software & Updates -> Other Software.