I wrote a little python 3 script to automatically check for an updated version and install it for debian-based Linux systems, maybe this will be useful to someone.
You can set it on the dev or stable channel and retries automatically if sublimetext.com gives http 500 errors.
Needs to be run as root to run apt and dpkg.
I added sudo python3 updatesublime.py to my update script and works flawlessy. Any contribution or correction is welcome, just open a PR on github.
Didn’t know about that. Just pushed an update, the script now fetches the latest version from the JSON API.
for debian based systems, including Ubuntu and Linux Mint, there is a ppa for sublime text 3:
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/sublime-text-3
You can add the ppa to your repositories and any updates will be applied through the normal apt based package control system for your distribution.
I use the following to install the latest dev version of ST3.
LATESTNUMBER=$(wget -O - https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev | grep -o 'href="https://download.sublimetext.com/Sublime Text Build [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].dmg"' | grep -o -E '[0-9]+')
# wget --quiet https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-3112_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-3112_amd64.deb
wget --quiet https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-${LATESTNUMBER}_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i sublime-text_build-${LATESTNUMBER}_amd64.deb
cwd=$(pwd)
mkdir -p ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Installed\ Packages
cd ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Installed\ Packages/
wget --quiet https://packagecontrol.io/Package%20Control.sublime-package
mkdir -p ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User
cd ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/
wget --quiet https://github.com/rudolfb/ubuntu-elixir-elm-install-shell-script/raw/master/sublime-text-3/Package%20Control.sublime-settings
wget --quiet https://github.com/rudolfb/ubuntu-elixir-elm-install-shell-script/raw/master/sublime-text-3/Terminal.sublime-settings
# Revert back to previous directory
cd $cwd
This will search for the latest ST3 dev version, download the file, install, then I ‘install’ the package control and fetch a list of the packages i use from my github account.
Modified my shell script to the following, taking into account the previous comments.
#!/bin/bash
arch=amd64
channel=dev
echo --------------------
if [ "$channel" = "dev" ]
then
remoteversionurl="http://www.sublimetext.com/updates/3/dev/updatecheck?platform=linux&arch=x64"
else
remoteversionurl="http://www.sublimetext.com/updates/3/stable/updatecheck?platform=linux&arch=x64"
fi
localversion=$(dpkg -s sublime-text | grep Version | grep -o -E '[0-9]+')
json=$(wget --retry-connrefused --waitretry=1 --read-timeout=20 --timeout=15 -t 20 -O - ${remoteversionurl})
remoteversion=$(echo ${json} | grep -Po '"latest_version": \K[0-9]+')
# remoteversion=$(wget -O - https://www.sublimetext.com/3${channel} | grep -o 'href="https://download.sublimetext.com/Sublime Text Build [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].dmg"' | grep -o -E '[0-9]+')
remoteurl=https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-${remoteversion}_${arch}.deb
filename=sublime-text_build-${remoteversion}_${arch}.deb
echo --------------------
echo version json=${json}
echo --------------------
echo ${cwd}
echo channel=${channel}
echo localversion=${localversion}
echo remoteversion=${remoteversion}
echo remoteurl=${remoteurl}
echo remoteversionurl=${remoteversionurl}
echo filename=${filename}
echo --------------------
if [ -z "$remoteversion" ]
then
echo 'remoteversion variable is undefined'
exit 1
fi
if [[ "$localversion" != "$remoteversion" ]]
then
echo Update Sublime Text 3 from ${localversion} to ${remoteversion}
wget --quiet ${remoteurl} && sudo dpkg -i ${filename}
rm ${filename}
else
echo Sublime Text 3 local version ${localversion} is up to date
fi
echo --------------------
The only issues I have with this new script is sometimes the script returns ERROR 500: Internal Server
Updated my shell script to install/update Sublime Text 3 and posted the result to github:
The script determines the latest available version, then downloads and installs the tarball. Tested successfully on Fedora 25. There are a few parameters that allow on to choose between DEV and STABLE, specify a specific version number, and specify the installation folder.
Usage: {script} [ OPTIONS ] TARGET BUILD
TARGET Installation target. Default target is "/opt".
BUILD Build number, e.g. 3126. If not defined uses a Sublime Text 3
web service to retrieve the latest stable or dev version number.
OPTIONS
-h, --help Displays this help message.
-d, --dev Install the dev version
-s, --stable Install the stable version (default)
The following will install the latest stable version of ST3:
cd sublime-text-3-install
chmod +x sublime-text-3.sh
./sublime-text-3.sh
This will install the latest dev version of ST3:
./sublime-text-3.sh -d
This will install a specific stable version of ST3 in a non-standard folder:
./sublime-text-3.sh -s /usr/local 3126
Uses the JSON API to determine the latest available version.