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Builds listed in the dev channel are only available to licensed users

#1

“Builds listed in the dev channel are only available to licensed users. Users who are evaluating Sublime Merge before purchase will need to use the stable channel.”

I’m a licensed user, so let’s see with Sublime Merge:

$ sudo apt-get install sublime-merge
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
sublime-merge is already the newest version (2046).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Hmmm? Well let’s try the stable channel…

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

$ sudo apt-get update
…
Reading package lists… Done

$ sudo apt-get install sublime-merge
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
sublime-merge
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 4.539 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10,2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ sublime-merge 2047 [4.539 kB]
Fetched 4.539 kB in 2s (2.686 kB/s)
(Reading database … 177697 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/sublime-merge_2047_amd64.deb …
Unpacking sublime-merge (2047) over (2046) …
Setting up sublime-merge (2047) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) …

This works!

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#2

Whether you can download a build has nothing to do with it being a development build or not, unlicensed users can download development builds just fine - they won’t run without a license though. Are you sure you properly added the source and did an apt update?

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#3

I find it rather disturbing that I somewhat follow the ‘rules’ of this forum and then find out that I am running an ‘older’ version than someone who ‘does not pay dues’. That seems like a very normal attitude to me.

This is on the board: Today we’re releasing the first Sublime Merge build of the year - Build 2047! This build brings plenty of new features and enhancements.

And this: Builds listed in the dev channel are only available to licensed users. Users who are evaluating Sublime Merge before purchase will need to use the stable channel.

Yes I’m sure, this is in the ‘About Sublime Merge’: 'Stable Channel, Build 2047. (And before it was 2046.)

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#4

The current development build is older purely due to it being released earlier. It doesn’t lack any features from stable. Our build numbers are simply sequential, so when we make a stable build from the current development build it gets a newer number.

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