Hi everyone!
I was following the installation instructions for Sublime Text on Ubuntu, but I ran into an issue when trying to install the package.
After adding the GPG key:
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc > /dev/null
I ran:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text
However, the installation failed with:
E: Unable to locate package sublime-text
Root cause
The GPG key was added successfully, but the Sublime Text APT repository had not been configured.
As a result, apt-get update did not fetch the Sublime Text package index, and APT could not locate the package.
Solution
The issue was resolved by explicitly adding the Sublime Text repository:
echo -e 'Types: deb\nURIs: https://download.sublimetext.com/\nSuites: apt/stable/\nSigned-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.sources
Then running:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text
The installation completed successfully.
Suggestion
It might be helpful to make the repository configuration step more explicit in the installation instructions, as adding the GPG key alone is not sufficient.
Hopefully, this helps anyone running into the same issue!