What is Sublime Text?

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. The program was originally desighned as a feature-rich extension of Vim. It's the best editor for HTML5 and CSS3 developers (It doesn't need extra plugins like other text editors).

About this tutorial

This tutorial will explain how to install Sublime Text and how to make it a native application.

Installation process

First Method

Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2

sudo apt-get update

Optional: remove any installed Sublime Text packages:

sudo apt-get --purge remove sublime-text*

Now to install Sublime Text, type the following:

sudo apt-get install sublime-text

Second Method

First you need to download Sublime for 32bit or 64bit system.

Once you download the file locate it and extract it. I assume that the downloaded file is located in /home/Downloads. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and type 

cd ~/Downloads (With this command we change the default directory "/" to "/Downloads") and then type

For 32bit version

tar -jxvf Sublime\ Text\ 2\ 2.0.1.tar.bz2 to extract the file.

For 64bit version

tar -jxvf Sublime\ Text\ 2\ 2.0.1\ x64.tar.bz2 to extract the file.

Once you extract the file type the following commands invidually:

sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 sublime

sudo mv sublime /opt/

cd /opt

sudo chown -R root:root sublime

sudo chmod -R +r sublime

Now we need to create a Sublime Text executable in your path. To do this execute the following commands:

sudo touch /usr/bin/sublime_text

sudo chmod 775 /usr/bin/sublime_text

Now press Alt+F2 and type:

gksu gedit /usr/bin/sublime_text

and copy paste the below code:

#!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export SUBLIME_HOME="/opt/sublime"

$SUBLIME_HOME/sublime_text "$*"

and save the file.

Next , to create a menu icon press Alt+F2 and type:

gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop

and copy paste the below code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Sublime Text
Comment=Sublime Text 2
Exec=sublime_text
Icon=/opt/sublime/Icon/256x256/sublime_text.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true

and finally save the file.

Finally to launch Sublime Text for the first time

Menu  Accessories  Sublime Text