Install ST 4 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[jeckstei]

I already have ST 3 installed on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS workstation. When I start it, I have been getting notifications to update to ST 4. When I click on the upgrade button, it takes me to installation instructions that appear somewhat different from the ones I used to install ST 3 from way back in 2017. Back then, I did

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo “deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text

The current instructions discuss installation, not upgrading. Is it safe to follow these instructions? I do not have a good understanding of incorporating external repositories into apt and I am worried that things will go wrong if I follow the new instructions blindly on top of a much older installation. I have had my system get into bad states through things like this before (not with Sublime Text, though).

What is the safe way to upgrade?

[Lozminda]

Personally (and every body at Sublime is going to disagree with me) don’t upgrade.

If you like ST3 stick with it (I reckon it’s a great product now I’ve got my head round it a bit), if you have a license you can set update_check to false in your preferences so that you don’t get the upgrade button.

I’m running Linux Mate 19.3 (on a 64 bit machine) and my version of ST3 auto upgraded (I accidentally pressed the wrong button) to ST4 (it was very quick), so I’m not sure why it’s asking you to do an installation…

If on the small chance you have a 32 bit machine, you won’t be able to upgrade to ST(4) anyway it’s for 64bit machines only.

However the safe way to upgrade is just click the button when it says upgrade yes or no, hopefully someone who knows more than I do will let you know re installation et al.

Also queue various flamers to shoot be down for having the audacity to suggest that you might want to stay with ST3

Not sure how useful that was…hopefully you’ll get some better advice
ATB

[bschaaf]

Yes those instructions are generally safe to follow. To be extra sure you can check what’s already in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder and confirm that there isn’t a sublime-text repository there already.