Sublime 2 Installation for Linux

Linux

You can download the package and uncompress it manually. Alternatively, you can use the command line.

For i386

cd ~
wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime Text 2.0.1.tar.bz2
tar vxjf Sublime Text 2.0.1.tar.bz2

For x64

cd ~
wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime Text 2.0.1 x64.tar.bz2
tar vxjf Sublime Text 2.0.1 x64.tar.bz2

Now we should move the uncompressed files to an appropriate location.

sudo mv Sublime Text 2 /opt/

Lastly, we create a symbolic link to use at the command line.

sudo ln -s /opt/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime

In Ubuntu, if you also want to add Sublime Text to the Unity luncher, read on.

First we need to create a new file.

sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop

Then copy the following into it.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=2.0.1
Name=Sublime Text 2
# Only KDE 4 seems to use GenericName, so we reuse the KDE strings.
# From Ubuntu's language-pack-kde-XX-base packages, version 9.04-20090413.
GenericName=Text Editor

Exec=sublime
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/Sublime Text 2/Icon/48x48/sublime_text.png
Type=Application
Categories=TextEditor;IDE;Development
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow

[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=sublime -n
TargetEnvironment=Unity

If you’ve registered your copy of Sublime Text, but every time you open it you’re asked to enter your license, you should try running this command.

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.config /sublime-text-2

Just replace username with your account’s username. This should fix the permission error in the case that you opened up Sublime Text as root when you first entered the license.