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Installing packages for all users

#1

We operate a heterogeneous infrastructure running Windows, Mac and Linux. We are looking at using Sublime Text 3 in our computing labs however require that packages are installed locally and not in a users profiles (this will waste our network file space and also causes issues for some users who are incapable of installing the required packages). A bit of Googling around and it seems that the only place to manually put packages on Mac is ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages and ~/.config folder for Linux.

Is there are way to install packages so that all users of the machine can see the packages and not have to install it themselves?

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#2

The only real solution is symlinking both, the Packages and the Installed Packages folder (in the location you specified). The problem there is that the User package contains all user configuration data, so you might not want to sync that folder with multiple people.

If using Package Control, the User/Package Control.sublime-settings file needs to be synced along with the Installed Packages dir however, because Package Control will sync the Installed Packages according to the package names specified in the above file.

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