ST3: Is there any way to have two separate configurations on the same user?

[ard]

I’d like to have two separate configurations on one user account in linux. Different sets of packages, separate local history, etc.
Unfortunately I haven’t found any commandline option to set alternate config directory.
Is it achievable in any way?

[kingkeith]

How to install another instance of sublimetext on linux?

It’s not officially documented anywhere, but the magic of portable installs on Windows also works on Linux and MacOS; you just need to create a Data folder alongside the binary, and Sublime will use it instead of the normal location in your user folder. So in you case you want to either create a Data folder in the location where Sublime is installed or download the tarball version of Sublime, extract it somewhere, and then inside of the extraction folder create a Data directory and launch Subl…

[ard]

Indeed, it works!