Unable to update ST3 on Ubuntu

[Solith]

Sublime Text 3 started suggesting update today. Directed me to build 3080. Problem is I cannot install it. I get:

[code]user@pc:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg --install sublime-text_build-3080_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package sublime-text.
dpkg: regarding sublime-text_build-3080_amd64.deb containing sublime-text:
sublime-text-installer conflicts with sublime-text
sublime-text (version 3080) is to be installed.

dpkg: error processing archive sublime-text_build-3080_amd64.deb (–install):
conflicting packages - not installing sublime-text
Errors were encountered while processing:
sublime-text_build-3080_amd64.deb
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It’s my work computer and I don’t want to uninstall it to retry fresh. I have bunch of plugins and config in it. Any way to fix?

[mihai722]

I had the same problem, I made some backups of $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3 (that’s where the plugins and config stuff are stored) and then:

sudo apt-get remove sublime-text-installer

After you remove it, you can safely install the new ST3 build, you will not lose the packages (plugins), license or configs.