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Sublime not running after recent update (Sep 2025)

#1

Hi there,

Running on Ubuntu (22.04, 64-bit), I accepted the Sublime Text update yesterday, and now clicking the desktop icon yields a loading wheel and then nothing.

which subl still finds the subl command (it gives /snap/bin/subl), but executing subl or subl --version gives cannot snap-exec: cannot exec "/snap/sublime-text/215/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text": exec format error.

I have restarted the computer in case that matters. I also uninstalled Sublime Text using the Ubuntu Software GUI and reinstalled it using the same GUI, and same results of not being able to run Sublime Text.

Is there a bug in the most recent update? Anyone else seeing this behavior? Any fixes?

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#2

sublimehq doesn’t provide nor support snap packages due to various limitations they come with.

Those snap packages are created by a 3rd party, you’ll have to reach out for resolution.

Official ST and SM packages from https://www.sublimetext.com/download work perfectly well on Ubuntu 22.04 or 25.04.

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#3

Got it, thank you

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#4

Someone has recently reported this bug to the packagers.

I use the deb package mostly myself (and Mac version), but I have this snap installed on several computers I don’t want to spend much time configuring and it usually works well.

Edit: If you had the Sublime Text snap installed before this update you can run snap revert sublime-text to go back to the previous version.

Edit 2: Resolved

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