How to install Sublime Text 3

Looks like this is always a bitch to put together, so I might as well write it down in anticipation of a new computer.

I use this guide, I think, as the rest I can find want me to just install the .deb file which doesn't include opening the folders via right click:

 http://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/install.html

Don't forget to check the md5 sum when downloaded from different locations, I downloaded it from both my local machine and my butt. Hopefully if there's a man in the middle of both locations, they're not tampering with my lowly data.

Instructions

To start, get the wget (I'm making up the build number, reference the site for the latest)

 ~$: cd ~
    ~$: wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/sublime_text_3_build_3059_x64.tar.bz2
    ~$: tar vxjf sublime_text_3_build_3047_x64.tar.bz2

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

 sudo mv sublime_text_3 /opt/

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

 sudo ln -s /opt/sublime_text_3/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.

    Exec=sublime
    Terminal=false
    Icon=/opt/sublime_text_3/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-3

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.

Sublime Package Manager

The docs say to use this link, but in it looks like you just throw this crap into sublime's console (which is accessed through ctrl + `):

 import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '7183a2d3e96f11eeadd761d777e62404' + 'e330c659d4bb41d3bdf022e94cab3cd0'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://sublime.wbond.net/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

Sublime Linter

Found docs here, which say to do this:

• Install SublimeLinter via sublime package control (Ctrl+Shift+PInstall > SublimeLinter) and restart Sublime
• Install pep8 through python3's pip (~$: [sudo] pip-3.x install pep8)
• Install SublimeLinter-pep8 via subilme package control (Ctrl+Shift+PInstall > SublimeLinter) and restart Sublime

Be sure to use pip-3.3 (or whatever pip you have that starts with "pip-3."), because it sure as fuck doesn't work with python 2.7's pep8!