Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu 12 04
Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu 12 04
Ive been using Sublime Text 2 to edit my code for long time now and I cant get enough of it. The black layout is amazing for the eyes and the functionality is as good as it gets. I have had minor issues installing it on Ubuntu 12.04 however. The following steps should solve the issue.1. Download the tar, locate the directory in terminal and execute
$ tar xf "Sublime Text 2 Build 2181 x64".tar.bz2
This will create a directory Sublime Text 2.
2. Move the folder into /usr/lib/
$ sudo mv "Sublime Text 2" /usr/lib/
This will move the Sublime Text 2 files.
3. Make Sublime Text launchable from the terminal
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/"Sublime Text 2"/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime
At this point, typing sublime in the terminal will launch the application. If you want to have a link to Sublime in the Unity menu bar, simply launch the application and right-click on the icon and select Lock in Launcher.
If you fancy opening all your text files with Sublime Text 2, execute the following:
$ sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
Search for all occurences of gedit.desktop and change them to sublime.desktop
This will essentially change the default application for text files from gedit to Sublime.
Happy hacking!
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