How to install Sublime Text 3 on Lubuntu 17.10

Sublime text is one of the best text editor out there, sublime is not an open source software, therefore sublime text is not available on lubuntu/ubuntu respository, but don't worry i will guide you installing sublime text 3 on lubuntu 17.10 artful.

How to install Sublime Text 3 on Lubuntu 17.10

• open command line/terminal on lubuntu
• run update command 

sudo apt-get update

• install apt-transport-https package

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

• install GPG key for sublime text

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

• add sublime repository

echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list

• run update command again

sudo apt-get update

• install sublime text 3

sudo apt-get install sublime-text

• done!

Once installed you can open sublime text from lubuntu start menu > Programming > Sublime Text.


How to open Sublime Text from command line
You can also open sublime text from command line, simply run this:

subl

Of course you can also run it with sudo, if you are editing files under root directory

sudo subl