How to Install Sublime Text Editor on Debian 10/9/8

Sublime Text is a powerful text editor also available for Linux systems. It has lots of features which you must love to use. This tutorial will help you with installing Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3 on your Debian 9 and Debian 8 systems using apt-get.

You may also like other powerful text editors like Atom, Visual Studio Code, Notepadqq, and Brackets for you Debian based systems.

Below is some listed available features in Sublime text. You can also visit sublime text website for more details.

• Editing files side by side.
• Sublime Text is available for various plateform including OS X.
• It provides functionality to find and replace with regular expressions.
• We can make batch edits with multiple Selections.
• … and many more

Prerequsities

Login to Debian system using sudo privileged user or root user to install a Sublime text editor. For remote systems login with ssh.

ssh root@debain

Then install or update the following package on your system.

sudo apt install apt-transport-https

Install Sublime on Debian

Use the sublime official Apt repository for the installation on Ubuntu, Debian and Linuxmint systems. First import gpg key on your system.

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

Now, add the Sublime text apt PPA in your system using the following command.

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

Let’s install sublime text latest version on your system.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text

Access Sublime Text Editor

Use system navigation menubar to access Sublime Text editor.

Happy coding.