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"The package 'Tag' is not available"

#1

Since I upgraded to 3126, I get an error popup every time I open Sublime Text - “The package ‘Tag’ is not available”. I also get it the first time I open up Package Control. I know Tag is no longer a valid package, but I don’t ever remember installing it. I think it may have come from the package BracketHighlighter, but not sure. I have checked my entire Packages directory and can’t find anything named ‘tag’, and Tag is listed in my “ignored_packages”, so I don’t know why it keeps coming up.

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#2

BH doesn’t install a Tag package.

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#3

Most likely it is in your User/Package Control.sublime-settings in installed_packages. That lists all of the packages that should be installed. If it is there, remove it from the list and you should be good.

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#4

Sublime reinstalls Tag after I add it to ignored_packages. Neither my System/Package Control.sublime-settings nor User/Package Control.sublime-settings has an option installed_packages.

Here is the output of my console when I start ST3:

DPI scale: 1
startup, version: 3126 windows x64 channel: stable
executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/Rick/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /C/Users/Rick/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/Rick/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["ActionScript", "AppleScript", "ASP", "C#", "C++", "Clojure", "D", "Erlang", "Go", "Graphviz", "Groovy", "Haskell", "Java", "LaTeX", "Lisp", "Lua", "Makefile", "Markdown", "Matlab", "Objective-C", "OCaml", "Pascal", "PHP", "PyV8", "R", "Rails", "RestructuredText", "Rust", "Tag", "TCL", "Textile", "Vintage", "WinMerge"]
pre session restore time: 0.209
startup time: 0.231
first paint time: 0.231
first paint time: 0.232
reloading plugin Default.auto_indent_tag
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plugins loaded
SublimeLinter: debug mode: off 
Emmet: No need to update PyV8
Package Control: The package Tag is being re-enabled after a Package Control operation was interrupted
ignored packages updated to: ["ActionScript", "AppleScript", "ASP", "C#", "C++", "Clojure", "D", "Erlang", "Go", "Graphviz", "Groovy", "Haskell", "Java", "LaTeX", "Lisp", "Lua", "Makefile", "Markdown", "Matlab", "Objective-C", "OCaml", "Pascal", "PHP", "PyV8", "R", "Rails", "RestructuredText", "Rust", "TCL", "Textile", "Vintage", "WinMerge"]
Package Control: Installing 1 missing package
ignored packages updated to: ["ActionScript", "AppleScript", "ASP", "C#", "C++", "Clojure", "D", "Erlang", "Go", "Graphviz", "Groovy", "Haskell", "Java", "LaTeX", "Lisp", "Lua", "Makefile", "Markdown", "Matlab", "Objective-C", "OCaml", "Pascal", "PHP", "PyV8", "R", "Rails", "RestructuredText", "Rust", "Tag", "TCL", "Textile", "Vintage", "WinMerge"]
reloading settings Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings
reloading settings Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings
error: Package Control

The package 'Tag' is not available
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2016-11-28 11:45:53, next run at 2016-11-28 12:45:53 or after
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#5

Sublime Text itself has no way to install packages. Packages are either installed manually, or usually via Package Control. If I were you, I’d follow the directions at https://packagecontrol.io/docs/troubleshooting#Enabling_the_Debug_Log to see what is going on.

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#6

Found the problem. Tag was listed in the in_process_packages setting in User/Package Control.sublime-settings, so it kept being added to installed_packages even though the install kept failing. I removed it from both in_process_packages and installed_packages, and now it has gone away.

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#7

The path on my Ubuntu Sublime Text 3 system is:
~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings

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