Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Sublime Text 3 is a lightweight, multi-platform, text editor. It is installable on Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OS X. Sublime Text has a proprietary licence, but the application cal also be used free, without needing to do reverse engineering hacking. Those who want to support the developer’s work can buy Sublime Text for $70.
In this article I will show you how to install Sublime Text 2.0.2 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17 and CentOS 6. Because there isn’t any repository available for Fedora and CentOS, we have to download the tarball from the official site. Follow the instructions for your system architecture, in order to get a successful installation:
Because it comes a precombined binary, all we have to do is extract the archite and run the app.
Instructions for 32 bit Fedora and CentOS systems:
$ wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
$ tar vxjf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
$ sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime
Instructions for 64 bit Fedora and CentOS systems:
$ wget http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2\ x64.tar.bz2
$ tar vxjf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.2.tar.bz2
$ sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/
$ sudo ln -s /opt/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime