How to use ST in Linux-like OS

[davidmcmurrey]

I am incredibly impressed and happy with ST in Windows. I tried to install it in my ISP account which runs BSD something-something, but don’t know how to proceed. ST docs say something about a sudo command. When I ran that, the error message said I’d be reported. Yikes! Can you tell me the CLI command to fire up ST3 in a Linux-like environment? – David

[bschaaf]

Please see: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/command_line.html

[davidmcmurrey]

Thanks. I tried using that page. That’s where I ran into sudo. Am I correct to run tar -xvf on the ST3 install package? I do not have superuser access to my ISP account. – David

[OdatNurd]

See the following for manual instructions. If you don’t have root access, you can’t make a symlink anywhere in /usr, so you’re going to need to make your own (I use ~/local/bin for that personally) and then add that folder to your PATH.

Note also that if this is on your ISP (i.e. a remote system), you’re likely not able to run a GUI application there that displays on your local computer for you to be able to do anything. You’re better off installing Sublime locally and using something like SFTP to access files remotely.

Install sublime text3 without sudo

What you want here is the tarball version of Sublime Text, which you can install anywhere you want without special privileges. There is a little bit of extra initial setup work that you need to perform, and you have to manually perform upgrades if/when you want them. The steps below tell you how to perform an initial setup. When a new build is released (or whenever you want to manually upgrade), you just need to perform the first two steps again (while Sublime isn’t running) to get the latest v…