Sublime Text (2 / 3) Installation Guide

Ubuntu (12.04, 13.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10) / Elementary OS (Luna / Freya) / Linux Mint(Cinnamon, Mate) / Mac OS X / Windows

1. Installation (Linux Based OS)

Sublime Text 2

Open the terminal, then run:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text

Sublime Text 3

Open the terminal, then run:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

1.1 Mac OS X & Windows

Download it straight from Sublime Text Official Website.

2. Install Package Control

Just take a look at the Official Documentation.

3. Install Some Necessary Packages

You can install all the packages using the command palette via Ctrl + Shift + p (Linux & Windows) or Cmd + Shift + p (Mac OS X).

Otherwise, just click on Preferences > Package Control > Install Package instead.

• Alignment
• Aligntab
• GitGutter
• JsFormat
• LESS
• Markdown Preview
• PHP-Twig
• PlainTasks
• Pretty JSON
• Pretty YAML
• Pretty Ruby
• HTML/CSS/JS Prettify
• SublimeCodeIntel
• SublimeLinter

Addicional Packages

• BracketHighlighter. Take a look on GitHub
• Ident XML. Take a look on GitHub
• Theme Nexus. Take a look on GitHub
• SQLTools. Take a look on GitHub

Optional Packages

• Vagrant
• Puppet

4. Customize User Settings

Go to Preferences, then click on Settings - User.

{
    "auto_indent": true,
    "color_scheme": "Packages/User/SublimeLinter/Nexus (SL).tmTheme",
    "detect_indentation": false,
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "font_size": 12.0,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage"
    ],
    "indent_to_bracket": false,
    "scroll_past_end": true,
    "smart_indent": true,
    "tab_size": 4,
    "theme": "Nexus.sublime-theme",
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "trim_automatic_white_space": true,
    "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
    "use_tab_stops": true,
    "word_wrap": false
}

Note:

For the Nexus theme in Sublime Text 2, the color scheme path is: "color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - Nexus/Nexus.tmTheme",

For the Nexus theme in Sublime Text 3, the color scheme path is: "color_scheme": "Packages/User/SublimeLinter/Nexus (SL).tmTheme",

For issues related to indentation of files under directories, take a look at: Too much indent for files under a folder.